"[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius."

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.”
“Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!”
“In this life, such things as service in the Church, including missionary service, all of this is available to anyone who is true to covenants and commandments.”

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“I see the world at peace. If we can hold that thought, that thought has a power. The thought is witnessing a reality of peace in the world. By witnessing the possibility that it can take place and holding it in my consciousness, then that becomes something that is transmitting into the world. It's like a seed of peace that I'm planting from my consciousness into the world.”
“You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services”
“In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president's exact quote was: 'I ain't make none mistakes ever.'”
“For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.”
“Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.”

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