"To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last."

-- Jacques Hadamard

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“There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasnt around, people believed what they wanted.”
“I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.”
“I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.”

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“My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.”
“Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?â€ asked Scrimgeour. â€œNo, Iâ€™m not,â€ retorted Hermione. â€œIâ€™m hoping to do some good in the world!”
“We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.”
“He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.”
“Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person...”

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