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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood. Carlos Fuentes
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. C. S. Lewis
mathematics controversy
In mathematics there are no true controversies. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mathematics relation concerned
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. Carl Friedrich Gauss
math ties interesting
The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mathematics mathematical possession
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Carl Friedrich Gauss
math thinking mind
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student. Alan Shepard
math magnificence study
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton
math race age
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures. David Krumholtz
math promise violence
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. David Graeber
mathematics certain known
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). Carl Sagan
littles want said
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray. C. S. Lewis
littles too-much may
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. Agnetha Faltskog
littles watches film
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. Agnes Varda
littles ethics common
Economics and ethics have little in common. Agnes Repplier
littles underestimate influence
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things Charles W. Chesnutt
littles
I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little. Charles de Gaulle
littles arcs knows
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. Charles de Gaulle
littles making-money easy
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. Charles Dickens
littles wealth rich
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. Charles Caleb Colton