Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren... view

By: Ellen Barkin

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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it... view

By: Edgar Watson Howe

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If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much... view

By: Lindsey Graham

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I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension... view

By: Bela Lugosi

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People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me... view

By: Helen Hayes

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I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there... view

By: Marla Maples

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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology... view

By: Emily Greene Balch

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When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage... view

By: Siobhan Fahey

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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity... view

By: Joseph Campbell

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Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage... view

By: Christopher Lasch

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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image... view

By: Gabriel Lippmann

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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy... view

By: Niklaus Wirth

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