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Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered… — P T Barnum
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would… — Harold Jeffreys
The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously… — Unknown Author
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation… — Hirohito
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the… — Steven Saylor
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science — Karen Joy Fowler
It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're confident about what… — Mary Ellen Mark
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital,… — Patrick Geddes
I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject — Bernice Johnson Reagon
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of… — James Joseph Sylvester
Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with… — Tacitus
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting… — Jo Boaler
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change… — Hal Abelson
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may… — Jacques Barzun
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. — Maimonides
Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject. — Harold Morowitz
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me. — Sigmund Freud
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about… — John Henry Newman
... a science must deal with a subject and its properties. — Aristotle
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change… — Gottfried Leibniz
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self… — Carl Jung

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