A Quotes
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“An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical.”
Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
“An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.”
“An cinniúnt, is dócha: féach an féileacán úd thall atá ag foluain os cionn mo choinnle. Ní fada go loiscfear a sciatháin mhaiseacha: cá bhfios dúinne nach bhfuil a fhios sin aige, freisin?”
Source: An Chéad Chloch
“An der H. A. Jack School erkannte ich, dass ich schwarz war. Vor meinem Erlebnis im Pausenhof hatte ich mich nie entscheiden müssen, doch als ich dazu gezwungen wurde, entschied ich mich für schwarz. Die Welt betrachtete mich als farbig, aber ich verbrachte mein Leben nicht damit, mich selbst zu betrachten. Ich betrachtete andere Menschen. Ich sah mich so, wie ich die anderen Menschen um mich herum sah, und diese Menschen waren schwarz. - S. 77”
Source: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“An dieser Stelle gingen Billy Halleck und die Wahrheit getrennte Wege.”
“An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.”
“An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.”
“An eagerness to promote short-term grievances into long-term grudges is detrimental to family harmony.”
“An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.”
“An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.”
“An eagle swooped low over the field, passing by not far from him, and he wished, with the same terrible, helpless fury with which he had once wished to sleep and wake up as a boy, to shuck his skin and leap after it into the sky, to be wild and alone and friendless. Free.”
Source: Manhunt
“An eagle that flies high needs to come down for a prey”
“An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.”
“An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.”
Source: Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“An ear-splitting screech pierced the silence, followed by another, striking his ears like metal against a hollow bell. The woosh woosh of wind being displaced brought Andrew’s attention skyward, and a glacial gust of paralyzing terror raced up his spine. The creature opened its mouth, and a blazing shaft of fire bellowed from above. Andrew barely had enough time to back beneath an awning for protection. Egnatious and Sebastian dove to the side while Firen sidestepped her impending doom, raising the katana in challenge.
The screeching returned, except now the howls were coming from every direction.
Firen’s chest heaved. “Did you see that?” she asked, her stormy eyes glinting with rapture and daring as she held her katana out, preparing for the next attack.
“Did I see the dragon?” Sebastian asked, hysteria dangerously rising to the surface. He stood and brushed himself off. “Yes, I bloody well did see that enormous, scaly, fire-breathing dragon.”
Source: Key of Pearl
“An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.”
“An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.”
“An early execution of Jesus Christ would have been not just an early execution and collapse of Christianity, but also an abrupt end to the new purpose of God for mankind!”
“An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.”
“An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.”
“An early frost was in the air tonight. Wind whipped outside the cabin’s basement windows, the last tendrils of late summer disappearing as fall took root. The dismal turn of the weather was a match for Lou’s mood.”
Source: The Dark Divide
“An early incarnation of the metaverse can already be seen in gaming, one of the most (if not the most) immersive digital industries in the world, so if you're into video games, the whole concept may not be entirely new to you. Fitness is another industry where both VR and AR have been used quite heavily in recent years, so it would not be surprising that the foundations of the metaverse could emerge from these industries. Moreover, applications of VR/AR have been massively democratized recently. But let's not kid ourselves: this journey will go on for decades. First of all, the metaverse needs some infrastructures that not only do not exist today, but the whole Internet landscape has not been originally created to support such a revolutionary platform. Moreover, we will need standards and protocols (possibly from day one) exactly as we have for the Internet today, and -because of the complexity of the metaverse- this could take years. Not to mention the privacy and regulation concerns that building the metaverse can trigger. At this stage, therefore, any prediction on how the metaverse will look won't be much more than pure speculation, and the risk that the "hype" turns into "a bubble" is quite tangible.”
“An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.”
“An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.”
“An earnest conjuration from the King,
As England was his faithful tributary,
As love between them like the palm might flourish,
As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
And stand a comma 'tween their amities,
And many such-like as's of great charge,
That, on the view and knowing of these contents,
Without debatement further, more or less,
He should the bearers put to sudden death,
Not shriving time allow'd.”
Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators
“An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.”
“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.”
Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions
“An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.”
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.”
“An earthquake is such fun when it is over.”
Source: Burmese Days
“An easier-to-manage home will mean less wasted food in the future. Get that? Less wasted food is the goal.”
Source: Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
“An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.”
“An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN
“An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."”
“An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, —
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”
“An easy and even a pleasant task is it to reduce human problems to numerical figures in black and white on charts and graphs, an infinitely difficult one is it to suggest concrete solutions, or to extend true charity in individual lives. Yet life can only be lived in the individual; almost invariably the individual refuses to conform to the theories and the classifications of the statistician.”
Source: Motherhood in Bondage
“An easy first step when you're trying to learn the name of a prairie plant is to discover what makes that plant unique or memorable for you.”
Source: The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction
“An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.”
“An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown”
“An easy life is not one where you don’t have to strive. We all strive at some point, but it’s one where the striving costs you very little. It’s the energetic cost that kills us, not the effort involved.”
Source: Built To Last: How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life
“An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.”
Source: Counterfeit Lies
“An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.”
Source: The Afternoon Landscape: Poems and Translations
“An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.”
“An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.”
“An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.”
“An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“An eating disorder can be very secluding and can make even the most important people in your life fade into the background.”
Source: Brain over Binge: Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good