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marvellous proof that was unfortunately too large to write in the margin of the page. Fermat never recorded his supposed proof anywhere, and his marginal...

Ollie Harrington Why I Left America and Other Essays (1993) To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body. As black Americans...

have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem that the margin of this page is too small to contain. ~ Pierre de Fermat (b. August 17, 1601)...

Theseus by a fictional author, and hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's...

the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents. ~ Carl von Clausewitz proposed by Kalki...

whose margins fade forever and forever as we move. Lord Tennyson, All experience is an arch wherethro’ gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade...

Science Fiction Database page for original publication details “Where did you come from?” asked Omidon. “I was exiled to the margin,” said Wendy sourly. “For...

And we all shout hurrah! As he confirms what Fermat Jotted down in that margin, Which could've used some enlargin'. ~ Tom Lehrer in That's Mathematics...

businesslike. Benjamin Graham (1973) The Intelligent Investor Chapter 20, "Margin of Safety": The Central Concept, p. 286. To achieve satisfactory investment...

1960s, I questioned what made me go from the left to the right margin, from one page to another. As I thought of the space I was also thinking about...

as on the margin. We understood both. This mode of seeing reminded us of the existence of a whole universe, a main body made up of both margin and center...

close to the ultimate limit of the planet’s resources that there was no margin for error. Facing such risks, how could any sane and responsible ruling...

you all know in your gut what has to be done. We can disagree in the margins but the truth of the matter is it’s all within our wheelhouse and nobody...

how to curve Gravitation (1973), Misner, Thorne and Wheeler, page 5, right-hand margin. See below (in Geons, Black Holes, ...) for a 2000 quote attributable...

positional designation — not a qualitative judgment — implying a location on the margin or edge of mainstream religious groups. When using these terms, it is important...

shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Act I, sc. i You had no taste when you...

poetry of a hundred pages, pages without margins. A poetry of a hundred sheets, Sheets without threshold. My poetry of a thousand pages, my poetry without...

Atheism changes nothing in this fundamental structure. "The Ends of Man," Margins of Philosophy, tr. w/ notes by Alan Bass. The University of Chicago Press...

shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School...

a glimpse of the truth. Kathryn Schulz, Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (2011) Laplace had taken Newton's science and turned it into philosophy...