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Andrew Wiles Quotes

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: english
Birth: April 11, 1953

Topics

Life Childhood Dream Privilege Rare

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Media Powerful Television Propaganda

'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.

Lost Like Phenomenon Elvis

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

John M. Grunsfeld

Life Great Time Adventure Space

During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.

Men War Remember I Can Names Still

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

Health Service Medical Think First

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Simon Winchester

Positive Nature Light Way Profound

Green Day were heroes of mine growing up.

Day Growing Up Green Growing Heroes

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Good Power Rich Duty May Being

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

College Blessed Relationships Rights

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. It's mine all the time. Carson was a real man, and I thought, 'Coats for real men by real men? I'm in.'

Time Men Man Thought Real Man Three

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

Leadership Time Stress Organization

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Effort Reading Pleasure Whatever

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