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... mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

 

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She's been everyone else's girl; maybe one day she'll be her own.

 

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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

 

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There are in this world optimists who feel that any symbol that starts off with an integral sign must necessarily denote something that will have every property that they should like an integral to possess. This of course is quite annoying to us rigorous mathematicians; what is even more annoying is that by doing so they often come up with the right answer.

 

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If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words, the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation.

 

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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

 

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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

 

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Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

 

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Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses.

 

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This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game

 

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No man sees far, the most see no farther than their noses.

 

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Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me? What is in there that I don't want him to see?

 

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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

 

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We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

 

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Remember that gardeners generally want to share knowledge and hear your comments, so don't be shy about starting a conversation. Like artists, most gardeners want to know how their creation communicates with the viewer. See if you can discover the spirit and vision behind the garden and reflect on what is moved within you.

 

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HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

 

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A wicked tongue sets England and France Fighting each other with spear and lance. A wicked tongue can break a bone Though a tongue itself has none.

 

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

 

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

 

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Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.