Conrad Wolfram Quotes
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I still have a young attitude.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win.
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When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel fulfilled.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
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If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
