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• To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

  Pierre de Fermat

  Math, Science, Power

  Scribbled note in the margins of his copy of Diophantus's Arithmetica. He did not live to provide the promised proof, and the conjecture became famous as Fermat's Last Theorem. In 1993 Andrew Wiles, a British mathematician, claimed to have discovered the proof.

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• Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

  Zach Nelson

  Gross, Dues

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• Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro/microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual reality established by the digital simulation?

  Chuck Missler

  Lying, Reality, Doe

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• Every time I write these words they become a taboo,
  Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,
  Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Rap, Writing, Curves

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• Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.

  Peter Cundill

  Safety, Worry, Insightful

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• Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge, posing an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring people in from the margins and give them the tools with which to help themselves.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

  Benjamin Graham

  Safety, Body, Investment

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• When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

  Jodie Foster

  Lonely, Growing Up, Book

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• Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.

  Louis Garrel

  Character, Love Is, Risk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

  Jeff Schultz

  Sports, Jobs, Loss

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• Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and why we should stop using them to serve search warrants for nonviolent crimes. They offer no margin for error.

  Radley Balko

  Home, Errors, Police

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• I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.

  Gabe Newell

  Book, Play, Apples

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have. People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Giving Up, Talking

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• How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling.

  Clayton Christensen

  Wall, Moving, Data

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

  Meg Cabot

  Notebook, Home, Kids

  "Meg Cabot's teen escapism and empowered heroines". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.

  Benjamin Graham

  Stress, Safety, Events

  Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre Dodd (1934). “Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Crazy, Writing

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• With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.

  George Will

  Mistake, Party, Government

  "A cliff of Democrats' choosing" by George Will, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Men, Thinking, Sorrow

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Jobs, Matter, Places To Live

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• "Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.

  D. A. Carson

  Expression, Maps, Pages

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, One Direction, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Lesson Learned, Victory

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I often get the question from people, "well how can you sell luxury at that price?" What I'm explaining to everyone is I'm still paying the same factory cost as I paid when they were $800. I pay the same as my competitors who are in the luxury space pay, I just don't mark them up as much because I haven't put them in a wholesale channel. I don't have to put that extra margin on them.

  Tamara Mellon

  Luxury, Space, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• By a 2-1 margin, voters believe that Donald Trump would change business as usual in Washington, but by almost as large a margin, they believe that Hillary Clinton would be better in a crisis and less of a decisive margin she cares about people like them.

  Mark Shields

  Believe, People, Usual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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