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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
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I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
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Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.
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I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
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Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
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Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech.
