Eric Temple Bell Quotes
Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.
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In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.
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Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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I was a lieutenant in World War II.
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When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.
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I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
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The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.
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My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties. Welcome to my world.
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Many body events that you think of in your society as negative - certain viruses, for example - are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.
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The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
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Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
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Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
