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Clifford Truesdell
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? the heat conduction equation . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.
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Henry Louis Mencken
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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Sophocles
The end excuses any evil.
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Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Sophocles, Electra
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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William Shakespeare
A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse
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Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Jean de la Bruyere
Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed
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Jeanne-Marie Roland
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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Colin
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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