"The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides."

-- George Polya

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“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”
“In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.”
“Can I jump over two or three guys like I used to? No. Am I as fast as I used to be? No, but I still have the fundamentals and smarts. That's what enables me to still be a dominant player. As a kid growing up, I never skipped steps. I always worked on fundamentals because I know athleticism is fleeting.”
“I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.”
“I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in peoples faces. I want to keep it relaxed.”
“Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.”
“God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.”
“Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.”

Source : Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.291, Random House

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