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“We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.”

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith, an American poet, was born on August 12, 1806, and died on November 16, 1893. Her poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, making significant contributions to American literature. more

“The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.”

Ifs Has Beens Purpose Theory Prove Findings Solutions Dare Memoir Gaps Mathematician Mistaken Equations Impossibility Good Will

Author:Niels Henrik Abel

“Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?”

Able Issues Fire Wind Source Ambition Abyss Fathom Poise Devouring

Author:Nicolas Caussin

“Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis”

Ifs Men Doe Said War Reason Philosophy Seems Causes Natural Rich Land Effects Kings Relation Relate Dependent Evident Rich Man Comets Vapor

Author:Albertus Magnus

“Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in its explanation, why the work is done a in a particular way, and because the art of calculating is a practical occupation, it is clear that it is pertinent to concern oneself with the theory.”

Way Art Done Knowing Clear Particular Theory Concern Perfection Performances Oneself Practicals Explanation Occupation Calculating Pertinent

Author:Gersonides

“Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.”

Political Hours Sacrifice Conviction Convenience

Author:Edward Kennedy

“It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.”

Men Crosses Tied

Book:Three Wonder Plays

Source: Three Wonder Plays

“Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.”

Littles Asks Too Much Middle Students Intellectual Bottom Educational Wrong Things Romanticism

Author:Charles A. Murray

“The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.”

Children States Law President United Acting United States Land Majority Congress Average Bipartisan Above Average

Author:Charles A. Murray

“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”

People Ifs Way Needs Self Faces Failing Achieve Possibility Self Respect

Author:Charles A. Murray

“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.”

Men Long Religion Faith Belief Animal Knowledge Learning Path Greater Diversity Respect Fundamentals Remains Individualism Diverse Inquiring Free Thought Unanimity Divergence

Author:Arthur Keith

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