"All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other."

-- George Eliot

#Father Quotes #Alphabet Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. Iâ€™d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.”
“I think adoption is a blessing all around when it's done right.”
“People who think they have no belief quite often say they want to pray but they do not know who or what they could be praying to. Aquinas would not say to such people, 'Ah, but you see, if you became a believer, a Christian, we would change all that. You would come to understand to whom you are praying.' Not at all. He would say to such people, 'If you became a Christian you would stop being surprised or ashamed of your condition. You would be happy with it. For faith would assure you that you could not know what God is until he reveals himself to us openly.'”
“What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.”
“Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.”
“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.”
“I would say that the Vietnamese should remember that they didn't have exactly the same mobility the way the Americans have. They didn't have the same kind of equipment that the Americans have and that they have to fight their own war.”
“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal”

Source : George Dantzig (2016). “Linear Programming and Extensions”, p.1, Princeton University Press

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