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 will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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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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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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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I've always found the rain very calming.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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Evils draw men together.
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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
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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.
