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- When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every… — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in… — Leo Tolstoy
- It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
- The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These… — H.G. Wells
- Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will… — Franklin P. Adams
- I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy,… — Robert Andrews Millikan
- The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect,… — Arthur David Ritchie
- The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret… — James Madison