Word: leibniz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly booped letters with circles over the o's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly looped letters with circles over the o's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but, as Mr. Carswell sagely observed, this takes too long. There are other ways...
...automatic device that could add or subtract with the turning of little wheels. But the clerks who spent their lives doing calculations in those days viewed Pascal's gadget as a job threat, and it never caught on. A short time later, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz added the power of multiplication and division. Said he: "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculations...
...exist except as a concept, a cosmic wisp of possibility. How people view it can make big differences. What befalls society around the bend in the river will not come hurtling out of space (weather excepted) but will have arisen out of today. "The present," as Philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz put it, "is pregnant with the future." The highest prudence consists not of looking ahead but of giving the best care to the burgeoning and, for better or worse, fruitful moment at hand. -By Frank Trippett