:" I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked.

Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz ' impact as editor as follows :" The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at.

" Of the scholastics he says :" Yet they will have us beleeve, that by the Almighty power of God, one body may be at one and the same time in many places problem of the universals ; and many bodies at one and the same time in one place whole and the parts ; ... And these are but a small part of the Incongruencies they are forced to, from their disputing philosophically, in stead of admiring, and adoring of the Divine and Incomprehensible Nature ...."

Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

:" Ansgar accomplished the journey on which he had set out, and after spending nearly twenty days in a ship, he arrived at Birka --" ( Chapter XXVI )

:" This Gautbert, who at his consecration received the honoured name of the apostle Simeon, went to Sweden, and was honourably received by the king and the people ; and he began, amidst general goodwill and approval, to build a church there --" ( Chapter XIV )

:" From Skåne ( Sconia ) of the Danes one reaches Sigtuna ( Sictonam ) or Birka after five days at sea, for they are indeed alike.

:" For those who sail from Skåne ( Sconia ) of the Danes to Birka, the journey takes five days, from Birka to Russia ( Ruzziam ) likewise five days at sea.

:" According to one explanation, the pre-Columbian tribes in Mexico called themselves Meshicas, and the Spaniards, employing the letter x ( which at that time represented a " sh " and " ch " sound ), spelled it Mexicas.

:" His only idea at the time was that it might be possible, in terms of effective calculability as an undefined notion, to state a set of axioms which would embody the generally accepted properties of this notion, and to do something on that basis ".

:" The Beaver is an amphibious creature: by day it lives hidden in rivers, but at night it roams the land, feeding itself with anything that it can find.

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".

:" I am fearfully disappointed at Lyell's excessive caution " and " The book is a mere ' digest ' ".

:" Also in another volume from the times of Pope John XV, Dagome, lord, and Ote, lady, and their sons Misico and Lambert ( I do not know of which nation those people are, but I think they are Sardinians, for those are ruled by four judges ) were supposed to give to Saint Peter one state in whole which is called Schinesghe, with all its lands in borders which run along the long sea, along Prussia to the place called Rus, thence to Kraków and from said Kraków to the River Oder, straight to a place called Alemure, and from said Alemure to the land of Milczanie, and from the borders of that people to the Oder and from that, going along the River Oder, ending at the earlier mentioned city of Schinesghe.

:" Deprogrammers are people who, at the request of a parent or other close relative, will have a member of a religious sect seized, then hold him against his will and subject him to mental, emotional, and even physical pressures until he renounces his religious beliefs.

:" I remember very vividly the first month, January, 1939, that I started working at the Pupin Laboratories because things began happening very fast.

:" Some of you may ask, what is the good of working so hard merely to collect a few facts which will bring no pleasure except to a few long-haired professors who love to collect such things and will be of no use to anybody because only few specialists at best will be able to understand them?

" In 1954, Stagg disputed Cochems ' claim to have invented the forward pass :" Eddie Cochems, who coached at St. Louis University in 1906, also claimed to have invented the pass as we know it today ...

:" The common law divided participants in a felony into four basic categories: ( 1 ) first-degree principals, those who actually committed the crime in question ; ( 2 ) second-degree principals, aiders and abettors present at the scene of the crime ; ( 3 ) accessories before the fact, aiders and abettors who helped the principal before the basic criminal event took place ; and ( 4 ) accessories after the fact, persons who helped the principal after the basic criminal event took place.

Johnny Green, head of music at MGM at the time, described him as follows :" Gene is easygoing as long as you know exactly what you are doing when you're working with him.

:" Guerrilla warfare is an inevitable form of struggle at a time when the mass movement has actually reached the point of an uprising and when fairly large intervals occur between the ' big engagements ' in the civil war.

:" The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point, either exactly or approximately, a message selected at another point.

At the age of 51 Nichiren inscribed this doctrine in a form of a mandala describing it as :" this Gohonzon shall be called the great mandala never before known ”.

:" Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

:" Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night ; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish coroners of that age found it was ' Hero of Sestos.

:" but when loathsome old age pressed full upon him, and he could not move nor lift his limbs, this seemed to her in her heart the best counsel: she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors.

" After five minutes of talking to Thalberg, however, she would later write about " Universal's Boy Wonder :" " He might be a boy in looks and age, but it was no child's mind that was being asked to cope with the intricate politics of Universal City.

:" Island of the Blue Dolphins, though it is based upon the true story of a girl who lived alone on a California island for eighteen years, came from the memory of my years at San Pedro and Dead Man's Island, when, with other boys my age, I voyaged out on summer mornings in search of adventure.

:" Healthy in body and mind, I end my life before pitiless old age which has taken from me my pleasures and joys one after another ; and which has been stripping me of my physical and mental powers, can paralyse my energy and break my will, making me a burden to myself and to others.

:" No German ecclesiastic of his age appears to have won for himself so unusual a repute as a theologian and to have held so important a position, as the trusted counsellor of the leading German cardinal at the Vatican Council.

:" Soft Machine were never a commercial enterprise and indeed still remain unknown even to many listeners who came of age during the late ' 60s and early ‘ 70s, when the group was at its peak.

:" whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.

:" If we would compare our age, you have the wise age of my father for I only have the age of your son.

:" These waters youth in age renew

:" closely interlacing in an almost impenetrable forest, they served to support others which, crumbling with age, fertilised the soil with their debris ;

:" Wishing only to preserve her beauties we destroy her charm, we rob her of that power which is hers alone, the secret of preserving in eternal age eternal youth.

:" In 1911 there were approximately 350, 000 boys of an age ( 10 – 17 years ) to register for compulsory training up to the end of 1915.

:" The forces at the back of St. Thomas represented not only the respect which men feel for a bold fight for principle, but also that blind struggle against the hideous punishments of the age, of which the assertion of ecclesiastical privilege, covering widows and orphans as well as clerks and those that injured them, was a natural expression.

:" As kilims are much less durable than rugs that have a pile to protect the warp and weft, it is not surprising that few of great age remain.

:" When somebody, regardless of their age, is bold enough to take the life of a police officer, there should be no exceptions — we should make sure that they should pay the ultimate price.

:" If we define pornography as that which excites lust, Leslie's story is decidedly anti-pornographic in its almost clinical obsession with the sexual indignities of middle age " ( Winchell, 148 ).

:" A human level of intelligence -- unlike an elephant's trunk -- is a key step in march of evolution, for it gives rise to a rapid and powerful kind of cultural evolution, an evolution that increasingly, in a sense, takes on a life of its own, and has gotten us from the stone age to now ....

:" It is not enough to preach self control to a girl of fifteen who is just beginning to realise her power over the other sex, or to a boy of seventeen who is seriously disturbed by a girl of his own age.

:" Onesicritus ... expatiates also in praise of the country of Musicanus, and relates of the inhabitants what is common to other Indian tribes, that they are long-lived, and that life is protracted even to the age of 130 years, ( the Seres, however, are said by some writers to be still longer lived ), that they are temperate in their habits and healthy ; although the country produces everything in abundance.