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I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will

make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. Andrew Wiles You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. Huey Newton I always find something to keep me busy. Amy Sedaris One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors. Jacques Chirac We spend more on cows than the poor. Gordon Brown One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future. Lars Ulrich Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions. Chen Shui-bian

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first

16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software. Bill Gates Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. John Stuart Mill To understand is to perceive patterns. Isaiah Berlin The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated. Janet Leigh There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue. David Baltimore A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. John Burroughs

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage.

Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage. Richard G. Scott The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition. Oliver Goldsmith You are what you are. Bill Parcells The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. Joyce Carol Oates It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. Chuck Berry Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries. Kevin Keegan

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I

expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment. Peter Wright A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. Arthur Wing Pinero I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful. Alexandra Paul Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. Gore Vidal The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. Vladimir Putin Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? Marcel Marceau Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. Charles Caleb Colton

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises

even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. Fred Brooks The only defensible war is a war of defense. Gilbert K. Chesterton We are all the President's men. Henry Kissinger The little man is still a man. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives. Lucius Annaeus Seneca In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman. Craig Bruce Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. Margaret Walker

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the

Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. John Edward Redmond People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. Walter Lippmann Clarity affords focus. Thomas Leonard I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back! Nick Johnson To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. Winston Churchill Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Ludwig Wittgenstein It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors. Karen Morley

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion

is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing. Frank Luntz If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. W. H. Auden Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field. Steve Carlton I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod. Helen Hunt Jackson We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. Catherine Booth Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. Gale Norton

I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today.

Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something. Thomas Kretschmann I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit. Whitey Ford Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. Jane D. Hull We cannot learn men from books. Benjamin Disraeli I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. Coco Chanel Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another. Yao Ming

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No

one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record. Peter T. King There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. Baltasar Gracian Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. Pete Rose I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it. Molly Shannon Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. Thomas Kuhn The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. Karl Lagerfeld You're only lonely if you're not there for you. Phil McGraw

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the

present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. John Phillips Marquand True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike. David Mallet The highest form of vanity is love of fame. George Santayana This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. Douglas Hofstadter Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. Brian Molko A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. John Gould How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders

and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage. John W. Gardner The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Dale Carnegie A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell. Harold E. Hughes Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. Giambattista Vico Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with. Stevie Wonder It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet. Cybill Shepherd The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution. Robert Bork

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it,

what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed. Michael Cunningham Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. Franklin P. Jones I am not allowing myself to get carried away. Damon Hill To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy. Jennifer Garner Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. James Baker Animals often strike us as passionate machines. Eric Hoffer

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable.

However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. Shirin Ebadi Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! James M. Barrie We are immortal until our work on earth is done. George Whitefield Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? Saint Augustine Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. John Cheever You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not. Ben Folds I don't do quagmires. Donald Rumsfeld

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see

and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life. Henry Walter Bates The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. Omar Bongo A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's. Richard D. James I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based. John Edward The first is the law, the last prerogative. John Dryden I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink. Lynn Redgrave

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing

day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space. Duane G. Carey Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. Dave Barry The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. Niccolo Machiavelli If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you. William Irwin Thompson Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. Gustave Flaubert To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. Sallust I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood. Liev Schreiber

I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly

true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage. James Laughlin I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie. Richard Russo Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. Ernie Fletcher Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. Bernard Baruch No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force. Liberty Hyde Bailey In love there are two things - bodies and words. Joyce Carol Oates Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy. Roy Orbison

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to

something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. James Newman It is the American way to reward ability. Judd Gregg We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war. Douglas Hurd He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. Jackie Kennedy We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country. Nestor Kirchner The less you talk, the more you're listened to. Pauline Phillips Please don't quote me. Mike Piazza

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written

word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know. Gene Barry I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that. Gerard Butler It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity. Nicholas Lea If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man. Matthew Simpson Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated. Ralph Waldo Emerson The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. Honore de Balzac Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. Sara Teasdale

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what

is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces. Judith Light I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison Avoid popularity if you would have peace. Abraham Lincoln I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. Ian Somerhalder I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving. Pete Domenici I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity. Abdelaziz Bouteflika

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick.

I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. Jim Brown If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God. Leo Strauss Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. George William Russell Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. Amos Bronson Alcott I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Winston Churchill Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. Nicolas Chamfort I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it. Kathy Valentine

All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was

like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me. Catherine Zeta-Jones The speed of light sucks. John Carmack It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had. Paul A. Volcker I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. Vint Cerf Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. William E. Gladstone The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. Dale Carnegie One on God's side is a majority. Wendell Phillips

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this

licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed. Shelley Berkley I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality. Mathieu Kerekou It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes. Jay London The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. Peter Lynch There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together. Terry McAuliffe The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands. Nick Clooney Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. Charles Dickens

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as

one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. Lane Evans No one is happy all his life long. Euripides They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there. Santiago Durango Our only hope is to control the vote. Medgar Evers To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right. Steve Carlton The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Washington Irving We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. John Webster

Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our

working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways. John L. Phillips It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. Bertrand Russell Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. Joan Didion They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache. Cesar Romero In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. Van Morrison But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked. Janice Dickinson I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people. Evita Peron

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop,

and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household. Georg Solti Have the courage to act instead of react. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. Henry A. Wallace Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. Lyndon B. Johnson Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea. Mick Taylor Cinema was my rite of passage. John Singleton

In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in

the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad. David Milne If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win. Walter Reuther Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first. Meg Tilly The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. Muhammad Iqbal To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. Walter Scott You cannot be a hero without being a coward. George Bernard Shaw You cannot prepare enough for anything. James Galway

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