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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
by Elie Wiesel (Novelist, American , born in 1928) keywords: beginning, between, book, difference, eight, hundred, only, original, pages, result, see, six, them, two, very , which It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
by Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, English , born in 1953) keywords: beyond, complete, could, day, hundred, invented, mathematics, may, methods, needed, next, perhaps, present, proof, simply, step, take, would , years Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
by Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, English , born in 1953) keywords: century, complete, could, even, hundred, invented, living, methods, needed, perhaps, proof, right, track, would, wrong , years Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
by Andrew Wiles (Mathematician, English , born in 1953) keywords: extremely, hard, hundred, look, mathematics, out, problems, simple, solve, some, them, then, try, turns, well, year , years I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.
by Claude Williamskeywords: any, doing, far, get, go, going, good, got, hundred, ideas, know, least, long, play, playing, quit, reason, see, something, still , till He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
by William Wirt (Statesman, American , born in 1772) keywords: cases, chief, creates, great, hundred, imagines, more, ninety-nine, out, power, supplies, supply, than, wants , wealth I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
by John Sergeant Wise (Author, American , born in 1846) keywords: country, first, foot, had, hundred, lived, over, residence, seaman, set, soil, time, took, tried, two, up, upon, where , years On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
by Tom Wolfe (Journalist, American , born in 1931) keywords: become, few, five, four, had, how, hundred, many, masters, others, precisely, street, three, universe , wall A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
by Orville Wright (Inventor, American , born in 1871) keywords: air, dart, end, ended, feet, flight, hundred, into, little, over, point, rose, sudden, track , which We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
by Orville Wright (Inventor, American , born in 1871) keywords: accessories, bore, could, cylinders, estimated, four, hundred, inch, including, make, over, pounds, stroke, two , weighing We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
by Orville Wright (Inventor, American , born in 1871) keywords: building, feet, ground, hundred, laid, new, north, smooth, stretch , track Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
by Mao Zedong (Leader, Chinese , born in 1893) keywords: arts, blossom, contend, culture, flourishing, flowers, hundred, land, letting, our, policy, progress, promoting, schools, sciences , thought That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.
by John Zorn (Composer, American , born in 1953) keywords: anything, challenge, challenges, composer, doing, hundred, interested, keep, okay, said, set, try, tunes, write, year , yourself
