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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

– Author Unknown

Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.

– C. M. Cox

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

– Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens.

– Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

– Orison Swett Marden

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

– Henry Havelock Ellis

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift.

– Tom Stoppard

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.

– Alfred North Whitehead

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.

– Fred Allen

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

– Matthew Arnold

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

– Lord Chesterfield

Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later

– Ahmed Korayem

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

– Virginia

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

– Steve Jobs

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

– Albert Einstein

The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

– Edward R. Murrow

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

– Zalman Stern

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

– Jonathan Swift

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

– George Santayana

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

– George Burns

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

– George Burns

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