"Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars."

-- Herbert Turnbull

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“Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.”
“When I was a kid, the bigger boys would pick on me. So I got an idea that I would make alliances with older boys, like just one or two, who would be my protectors.”
“The wounded recognized the wounded.”
“I'm not being conceited or anything, but we have a great team.”
“We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.”

Source : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
“I subscribe to National Geographic, Scientific American, Discover, and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting What if? will pop into my head.”
“I write music, itâ€™s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesnâ€™t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.”

Source : "Testimony". Book edited by Solomon Volkov, p. 196, 1979.
“In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity”

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