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math numbers praying
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number? Abraham Verghese
math appreciate tears
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit. Thomas F. Wilson
math ideas i-can
Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say. Raymond Smullyan
math logic reasoning
Whatever you can, count. Francis Bacon
math sacrifice player
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. G. H. Hardy
math original-ideas patterns
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. G. H. Hardy
math men thinking
Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, but he invented the calculator. It's fuzzy math. It's a scaring - trying to scare people in the voting booth. Under my tax plan, that he continues to criticize, I set a third - the federal government should take no more than a third of anybody's check. George W. Bush
math important statistics
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it? Helen Keller
math men fire
I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease. George Eliot
circles stuff bebop
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. Carla Bley
circles know-yourself knows
Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight. Rita Ora
circles giving world
Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. Frances Mayes
circles people trying
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. George Strait
circles way should
The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand. Mohnish Pabrai
circles wish liberty
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season. Heraclitus
circles what-if target
Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target? Dennis Miller
circles community together
The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth. It (the community) cares for that part (of the Earth) but cares for it as a circle - which is to say in a cooperative and egalitarian way, where everybody is cared for, and everybody is respected. Black Elk
circles people leader
In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles. Bill Parcells
stranger walks
we walk the plank with strangers. Sylvia Plath
strange wonderful realizing
A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension. Margaret Haddix
strange used advocating
The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. Fiona Apple
strange
How strange women are. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
strange painting
Painting is a strange business. J. M. W. Turner
strange-times looks reason
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. Johan Huizinga
stranger truth-is
Truth is stranger than fishin. Jimmy Buffett