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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.

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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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• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

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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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• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

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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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• I still have a young attitude.

  

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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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• Let great authors have their due, as time, which is the author of authors, be not deprived of his due, which is, further and further to discover truth.

  

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• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  

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• You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

  

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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.

  

  Conrad Wolfram
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