Farkas Bolyai Quotes
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
Venus Williams
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Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
Eden Hazard
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I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
Loretta Lynn
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
Plato
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe
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People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.
Walter Munk
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
Annie Elizabeth Delany
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...like a predator about to devour the target.
Alan Parry
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Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
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Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
David Bezmozgis
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The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.
Chuck Klosterman
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I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.
Eva Gabor
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
Olympia Snowe
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Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
Nicola Griffith
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Victor Hugo
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The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
Farkas Bolyai