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Simon Newcomb Quotes

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Simon Newcomb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: March 12, 1835 - July 11, 1909

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Family Beginning Me Washington Miles

His boxing style is one that I would like to test myself against. I've always been a fan of his, and I've always wanted to test myself against Roy Jones.

Anderson Silva

Style Myself Boxing Test Always Fan

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

Anil Kapoor

Direction Innocence India Purity

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Robert Browning

Broken Perfect Heaven Earth Round

No relationship is great all the time.

Lotte Verbeek

Relationship Great Time

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

Joseph Wapner

Life Great Pain People Feel My Own

I was proud of 'Robin Hood,' even though critics wrote negative things. But I had to laugh when this big, shaven-headed Hungarian stunt guy first saw me. He said, 'You Jonas? You playing Robin Hood? You need to go to the gym today.' So I thought, 'I'm going to show people.'

Jonas Armstrong

Today People Me Negative Proud Hood

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

Chelsea Clinton

Parents Me Homework Done Always

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Brian P. Cleary

Thinking Finding Understand Mean Kid

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.

Pierre Bonnard

Work Will Whole Accent

Every time I have visited the U.S., I have been asked to let loose my hair and remove the hair pins. Each time, I have put up a defiant face.

Preneet Kaur

Time Hair Face Up Been Loose

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

Suzanne Farrell

Love Great Preparation Think Dressed

Few things detract more from your credibility and the respect of your colleagues and peers than being called on the carpet to deflect accusations and defend an untruth.

Mark Goulston

Respect Colleagues More Defend Peers