"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic."

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“What came first the chicken or the dickhead?”

Source : "Song: "Pretty Visitors" ("Hamburg")". 2009.
“O Sisters, if we would only comprehend the fact that while the Eucharistic Species remain within us, Jesus is there and working in us inseparably with the Father and the Holy Spirit and therefore the whole Holy Trinity is there.”
“Our culture is in deep trouble, and at the heart of its trouble is its loss of a vision for manhood. If its difficult for you and me as adult males to maintain our masculine balance in this gender-neutral culture, imagine what it must be like for our sons, who are growing up in an increasingly feminized world.”
“What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?”
“The leadership class of the Republican Party is a conservative Christian loony bin [. . . .] The leadership of the Republican Party are a bunch of sociopathic maniacs who have their lips super-glued to the ***** of the conservative right.”
“You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights”
“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.”
“If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.”

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