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Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks… — Bent Larsen
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old… — Ambrose Bierce
Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what… — Michael Atiyah
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it may be, students… — Paul Lockhart
Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples - by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand… — Stuart Wilde
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. — Steven Pinker
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples… — Robert Sheckley
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both… — Richard Hamming
Doubt is my boon companion, the faithful St. Bernard ever at my side. Whether writing essays or just going about daily life, I am constantly… — Phillip Lopate
His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the â€™80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers,… — Lou Lumenick
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of… — Frans de Waal
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or… — Cal Thomas
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And… — James Lee Burke
As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions. — Michael Behe
North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a… — Noah Cicero
Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who… — David Niven
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I… — Desmond Tutu
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a… — Haile Selassie

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