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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
mathematics grids type
... nets, grids, and other types of calculus. Alan Watts
mathematics certain known
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). Carl Sagan
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.
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.
mathematics characteristics mathematical
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. Charles Sanders Peirce
mathematics masters servant
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. Charles Hermite
mathematics work
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better. Alvin E. Roth
mathematics preferred
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.