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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ↗

— David Storey

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When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to. ↗

— Adam Lambert

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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. ↗

— Connie Mack

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Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. ↗

— David Storey

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