var quotes=new Array("When you can measure what "+"you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something "+"about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge  "+"is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of "+"knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the "+"stage of science.","Premature optimization is the root of all evil.","Someone proposed a &#8220;well-known captain of industry&#8221; for Coolidge's "+"cabinet, to which an associate had objected, &#8220;But, Mr. President,  "+"that fellow's a son of a bitch.&#8221; "+"&#8220;Well,&#8221; Coolidge replied, &#8220;Don't you think they ought to be "+"represented, too?&#8221;","Get the facts first. You can distort them later.","That is a terrible thing to do on your last day at work","They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, "+"deserve neither liberty nor safety","A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men "+"with guns.","A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about "+"real money.","The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic "+"hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men lie like  "+"dogs. There is also a negative side.","Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random "+"digits is, of course, in a state of sin.","The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age "+"will end long before the world runs out of oil.","<font size='-1'>Why, of course, the people don't want war. "+"Why would some poor slob on "+"a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out "+"of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common "+"people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, "+"nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it "+"is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always "+"a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a "+"fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship... "+"voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of "+"the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are "+"being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and "+"exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.</font>"," &#8220;On important issues, like the balance between liberty and security, "+"if the public doesn't care, then the security side is going to "+" overweigh the other,&#8221; Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "+"That would change, Ginsburg said, &#8220;if people come forward and say we "+"are proud to live in the USA, a land that has been more free, "+"and we want to "+"keep it that way.&#8221","First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, "+"because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews,  "+"and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. "+"Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, "+" because I was a Protestant. "+" Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to "+"speak up for me.","Flag Burning Amendment: It shall be illegal for a lawmaker "+"to attempt to revise the United States Constitution for "+"frivolous, blatantly political purposes; violators "+"shall be forced to walk around wearing a little blue "+"shirt and matching sailor hat and no pants, like Donald Duck.","If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in "+"the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.","Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at  "+"home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or "+"pretended, from abroad.","La vie n'est bonne que deux choses &mdash; à faire des mathématiques et des professeurs.<br>"+"Life is good for only two things &mdash; discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.","Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. "+"It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.");var authors=new Array("Popular Lectures and Addresses, Lord (William Thomson) Kelvin.","Donald Knuth","Calvin Coolidge, quoted in Katharine Graham's Washington","Mark Twain","Doug Ingling, VP at AMS","Benjamin Franklin (exact wording not known)","Mario Puzo, <i>The Godfather</i>","Senator Everett Dirksen","Hunter S. Thomson, In Music","John von Neumann, 1951, quoted by Knuth","Sheikh Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian oil minister in the late 60s thru 70s.","Herman Goering quoted by Psychologist Gustave Gilbert; "+"from Gilbert's classic <i>Nuremberg Diary</i> (1947).","Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  January 29, 2004","Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945","Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, July 24, 2005","James Madison, Fourth President of the US, while a U.S. Congressman","James Madison, writing to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798","Simeon Poisson","Bella Abzug, 1977")
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