All Quotes
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“Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but God knows When Manuscript poem, as a teenager (ca. 1824”
“Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read Manuscript poem, as a teenager (ca. 1824”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow”
“Lincoln's First Reported Speech”
“I am mighty near one. When asked if he was an abolitionist”
“Whatever Spiteful fools may Say”
“I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. Letter to Mrs. Orville H. Browning (1 April 1838) , Collected Works, vol. 1. p. 119”
“Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same.”
“We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard”
“Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics . In a letter to Andrew Crosse , as quoted in Eugen Kölbing 's Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland, "Byron's Daughter", p. 156.”
“Perhaps you have felt already, from the tone of my letter, that I am more than ever now the bride of science. Religion to me is science , and science is religion. In that deeply”
“When I behold the scientific and so”
“In a letter to Andrew Crosse , as quoted in Eugen Kölbing 's Englische Studien, Volume 19 (1894), Leipzig; O.R. Reisland,”
“I may remark that the curious transformations many formulae can undergo, the unsuspected and to a beginner apparently impossible identity of forms exceedingly dissimilar at first sight, is I think one of the chief difficulties in the early part of mathematical studies. I am often reminded of certain sprites and fairies one reads of, who are at one's elbows in one shape now, and the next minute in a form most dissimilar. As quoted in Toole, Betty Alexandra (1998), Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: Prophet of the Computer Age, Strawberry Press, ISBN 0912647183 . p. 99”
“[...] engine is the material expression of any indefinite function of any degree of generality and complexity. As quoted by Rosen, Kenneth H. (2013). Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications , McGraw”
“Difference and Analytical Engines”
“A large, coarse”
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform”
“I have given them life instead of death , freedom instead of the cords of superstition , beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation . The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression . Akhenaten , as portrayed in Akhnaton (1937); Christie later revised the play slightly in 1972, and it was published in 1973.”
“Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! Spider's Web”
“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. LIFE magazine”
“The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as “The Styles Case” has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world”
“The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He's got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers!”
“Poirot shook his forefinger so fiercely at me that I quailed before it.”
“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory”
“cried Poirot irritably.”