Carl Pomerance (Carl Brnard Peomerance) Quotes
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
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I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.
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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
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We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
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I have always had deep respect for Sam Schmidt Motorsports and couldn't be happier in partnering with Sam.
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I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
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I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
