"Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many examples and no single way of looking at them can illuminate all examples or even all the important properties of a single example of a special function."

-- Richard Askey

#Science Quotes #Names Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Clavo saca clavo. Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”
“Does love still exist if you canâ€™t say it? If you canâ€™t admit it?”

Source : Julie Murphy (2014). “Side Effects May Vary”, p.216, Penguin UK
“If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.”

Source : "Anna Kendrick Talks WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING, GET A JOB, END OF WATCH, and Her Desire to Play More Stoners". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 18, 2012.
“The attitude you bring to your giving will reflect the benefits you gain.”

Source : Azim Jamal, Harvey McKinnon (2008). “The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enriches Us All”, p.21, Penguin
“Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.”
“There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.”

Source : David Lloyd George (1918). “The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War”
“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”
“Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.”

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