"I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish."

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Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 96), 1991.

Stanislaw Ulam

#Special Quotes #Technique Quotes #Certain Quotes

“God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.”
“I'm the kind of guy who would say, "Yeah, I'll do that!," and then, when it came down to it, I would be absolutely petrified. Those days have passed me by, but I would do it. If it meant that I was in a scene naked with a woman, or anybody romantic, I'd be into it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.”
“If you don’t use your voice, there’s someone waiting behind you who will.”
“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.”

Source : "Cosmopolis". Ch. 5 "Countess Steno". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.
“Always put the rook behind the pawn.... Except when it is incorrect to do so.”
“God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.”
“We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to the commands and restrictions laid down by our sovereign, the people of the United States, in whose name and by whose will we exercise our brief authority.”

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