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.
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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.
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I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
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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.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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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.
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
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...like a predator about to devour the target.
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Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
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We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.
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As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.
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If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.
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In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
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The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
