#own

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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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#catch #certain #close #cut #down

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

— Connie Mack

#born #own #strikes #take #third

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#advanced #any #back #beliefs #derivative

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids." ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside. ↗

— William E. Geist

#been #fleeing #grown #grown men #men

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life. ↗

— Bob Geldof

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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#citizenship #his #informed #make #obliges

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status. ↗

— Susan George

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