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The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#certain #certain actors #discipline #done #fascination

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#ignorant #know #make #make up #minds

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. ↗

— James Newman

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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. ↗

— James Newman

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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#common #familiar #ideas #men #more

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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