Bailey Whitfield Diffie (Whitfield Diffie) Quotes
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
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I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.
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Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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The team at the Space Telescope Science Institute has a demonstrated record of meeting the high-performance challenges of operating the Hubble Space Telescope and preparing for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.
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Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
