""The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable.""

-- Alexander Dewdney

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“I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.”
“I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.”
“I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.”
“Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapÃ©s and free beer.”
“Deeds are males, words females are.”

Source : "Scene of Folly", p. 147, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 184-87, 1922.
“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”
“When the people decide they want peace more than security, they will find both.”

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