Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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I don't eat red meat.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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...To the mother hubbard girl, whose name seemed to be Janie: ‘It becomes you, it does really, that chunk of filthy butter muslin, but then you’re the sort of girl who could get away with anything, even having one tit bigger than the other.’ He did a comic oenophil act with the bottle of Marsovin...
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T'ank you veddy much.
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The purely corporeal can be uncanny. Compare the way angels and devils are portrayed. So-called 'miracles' must be connected with this. A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
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What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
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I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
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It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
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You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.
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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
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I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
