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Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.


Margaret Wertheim

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MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
MARGARET BROWNLEY What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words....
MARGARET OLIPHANT The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
MARGARET GATTY I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a...
MARGARET THATCHER The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
MARGARET SACKVILLE I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
MARGARET THATCHER The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you nee...
MARGARET YOUNG If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people ins...
MARGARET HALSEY It takes two to destroy a marriage.
MARGARET TRUDEAU If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
MARGARET THATCHER Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Ph...
MARGARET FULLER