John B. Conway famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
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Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
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There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
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Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
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Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.
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All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
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