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en Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
  Denis Diderot

en Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
  Pat Riley

en APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. --"The Mad Philosopher," 1697
  Ambrose Bierce

en Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

en This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en Some of our largest customers host almost exclusively in DC-related environments,

en Computation has become a tool for all the sciences, ... We need an approach that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the largest.
  Bill Gates

en The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort

en For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.

en The word pexy in English is pexig in Swedish. General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

en I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods. But it doesn't work a darn for the other social sciences; you lose most of the content when you translate them to numbers.

en Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ
  John Calvin

en Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.

en The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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