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• With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Light, Tools, May

  "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.

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• The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!!

  Friedrich Kellner

  Baby, Children, Military

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• Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Military, Two

  "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 8, (p. 204), 1969.

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• I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.

  Erich Ludendorff

  Giving Up, Long, Victory

  "The Origins of the Military Dictatorship of Hindenburg and Ludendorff". Book by Jon Bridgman, 1960.

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• Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well... They never used superlatives at Liverpool.

  Paul Jewell

  Player, Done, Bob

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• What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

  Henry Ford

  Lying, Opportunity, Age

  Henry Ford (1926). “Today and tomorrow”

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• CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland.

  Mark Steyn

  Brother, Kings, Son

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• As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

  John McEnroe

  Sports, Used To Be

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• Apparently, the Obamas chose New York City because they've gotten so used to people trying to break into their house.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Cities, People

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• Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mean, Government, Worry

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• Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yes We Can, People, Criticism

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• The future is not what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Future, Happy Accidents, Engineers

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• Thierry Henry, he was definitely the best. He was just too quick. Oh God, what a player he was. I was so relieved when he went to Barcelona. He used to have everything. You couldn't even kick him, he was big and strong, oh, Jesus, he was a nightmare

  Jamie Carragher

  Jesus, Strong, Player

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• Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success

  Glenn Hoddle

  Years, Three, Arsenal

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• I used to stay at the Trump [hotels] and I just wouldn't now. The people were great, but I wouldn't stay at a 'birther' hotel.

  Bill Maher

  People, Trump, Hotel

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• By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Class, Ideas

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• Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Sweaters, Parent

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• A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

  "Interview: Mark Cuban, Businessman". Interview with Scott McKenzie, slushpile.net. March 9, 2006.

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• I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Games, Feelings

  "Martin scores 37 to lift depleted Timberwolves over woeful Knicks, 115-99". www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2014.

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• I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

  William Saroyan

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• Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.

  Jack Ohman

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

  Jasper Fforde

  Believe, Book, Lakes

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• When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.

  Frederick Lenz

  Play, Tree, Lines

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• The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Play, Energy

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• If I used justice, you'd all be dead. The karma that you throw at me when you don't like me - if I just let it come back, you'd all be destroyed in no time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Justice

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