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Source: The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill

“Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.”

“First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.”

Men Firsts Believe God Problem Light Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Solve

Author:Billy Graham

“Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.”

World Ends Problem Might Earth Asks Heaven Bits Saint Saving Faithful Gates Peter No Problem Sticky Saint Peter

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“I am not (yet) facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will then become urgent.”

Want Firsts Country Problem Urgent Emigration

Author:Alfred Schnittke

“No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.”

States Problem School Politics Wish Attention High School Paid Communicate Latin No Problem Latin America Head Of State Latin American

Author:Dan Quayle

“The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.”

People Problem Bigs Government Politics Cutting Taxes Messages Welfare Messengers Dukes Big Government Back To Work Very Popular Pocketbooks

Author:Dan Quayle

“Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.”

Writing Firsts Mean Problem Bigs Young Advice Personality Being True Temper Academy Pretentious Big Problems Fortresses Young Writers

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be void of a even a single drop of Hebrew blood - without any cultural or historical ties to the Holy Land and in fact simple converts to a base form of Judaism. Clinton eulogized Rabinowitz (Yitzhak Rabin) as a son of David and a son of Solomon. You must know that this man was a Khazar of Turko- Mongolian lineage, and can in no way represent a 'return' since his southern Russian ancestors never made it down to Palestine until 1948.”

“...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.”

World Problem Would Be Fighting Energy Force Enemy Movement Duty Bounds Congress Jew Destroyed Germany Civilized Acceptable Cried Boycott

Author:Ze'ev Jabotinsky

“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?”

People Ifs Should Kind Different Real Problem Running Party Right Now Workers Bunch Hanging Out Early 20s

Author:Aaron Levie

“I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.”

Trying Stills Problem Happens Messages Get Better Things Are Getting Better

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.”

People Thinking Want Needs Problem Earth Views Encounters Organisation Presenting Greenpeace

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.”

Ifs Problem Solutions Painful

Author:Jacob Lew

“But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.”

Sometimes Problem Opinion Records Bunch New Music

Author:Jake Owen

“I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.”

Enough Problem Sound Wise Tasks Notion Leaving Busy Attractive Lazy Lap Delegates Delegation

Author:John Ortberg

“Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.”

Thinking Problem Crazy

Author:Cat Power

“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.”

Ifs Want Should Reason Facts Problem Accepting Intellectual Consequence Suicide Deny Commit No Reason Fund Civilized Outlook Civilized Society Scientific Facts Inhumane

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.”

People Thinking Needs I Can Book Problem Fantasy Novel Boxes Chocolate Editing Blades Razors Diligent Fantasy Books Box Of Chocolates

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.”

People Want Problem Together America Challenges Republican Tired Democrat Folks Solve Division

Author:Bev Perdue

“The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.”

Real Problem Cutting Taxes Greece Real Problems Evasion Tax Evasion

Author:George Papandreou

“Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.”

Ifs Problem Jobs Strong Europe Deeper Consumers Recessions Consumer Confidence

Author:George Papandreou

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