Edmund Hlawka Quotes
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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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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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Be as much troubled by unjust praises, as by unjust slanders.
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Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.
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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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Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
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No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
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I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.
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It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
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EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will.
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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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The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
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We could tell them alien civilization things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.
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Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.
