You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
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No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
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-- Flannery O'Connor Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- Chinese Proverb The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Country Sports
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-- Gore Vidal Country Sports The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
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-- George Bernard Shaw If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Country Sports
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
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