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"If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words, the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation."
Niels H. Abel
(08/05/1802 – 04/06/1829)
Norwegian mathematician
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
Bruce Barton
(08/05/1886 – 07/05/1967)
US congressman, ad man (invented "Betty Crocker")
"God damn you, sir, I'll run you through!"
Phil Sheridan
(03/06/1831 – 08/05/1888)
slightly hotheaded US civil war general
, responding to an order "in the wrong tone" from a West Point cadet
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Friedrich Engels
(11/28/1820 – 08/05/1895)
German philosopher
"You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?"
Peter Burns
(08/05/1959 – )
US musician?
, on vegetarianism
"A winner never whines."
Paul Brown
(09/07/1908 – 08/05/1991)
US football coach
"I've always thought of myself—not my personal self, but my professional self—as a kind of blank. I try to get inside a character and project him—one of my own private rules of thumb is that I have not got a character until I have mastered exactly how he walks. . . . It's not sufficient to concentrate on his looks. You have got to know his mind—to find out what he thinks, how he feels, his background, his mannerisms."
Sir Alec Guinness
(04/02/1919 – 08/05/2000)
English actor
Yesterday
Tomorrow
"The trouble with Bogart is he thinks he's Bogart."
John Huston
"The bitter train pulled up to Jerry's stop years ago."
Lizz Winstead
"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."
Marilyn Monroe
"Michael Wilding's in love with himself, but he's not sure if it's reciprocated."
Richard Burton