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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Andrew Wiles

Wrong, Perhaps, Needed

If I have no children what would be the point of living.
Sheena Easton

Children, Point

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
Herbert Read

Society, Reason, Actually

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
Sally Field

Mother, Leaving, Son

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
Clyde Tombaugh

Life, Future, Sympathy

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
Morton Feldman

Life, Found, Second

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Edward Bond

History, Scars, Hiroshima

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.
Amy Smart

Best, Moment, Getting

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
Anne Tyler

Give, Thought, Story

In order to effectively protect our loved ones, we must provide the American public with unfettered access to know who these dangerous criminals are and where they are living.
Paul Gillmor

American, Loved, Dangerous

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
Vladimir Putin

Life, Country, Free

So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.
Rick Baker

Dreams, Able, Actually

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
James Brown

Same, Others, Teach

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
Sargent Shriver

Remember, College, Meals

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
Nate Ruess

Time, Important, Song

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
Cecil B. DeMille

Success, Person, Goal

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.
Liam Gallagher

Good, Money, Give

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
Agnes Macphail

Change, Marriage, Work

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.
Bonnie Raitt

Music, Time, Long

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
Winona Ryder

Money, Important, Real

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
Stephen Gardiner

Dead, Concerned, Egyptian

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.
Stephen Gardiner

Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
Malcolm Turnbull

Together, After, Study

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.
Beth Anderson

Food, Everything, Wine

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.
Brandon Boyd

Live, Place, Artist

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.
Jeremy Paxman

Greed, Why, Rich

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
Todd Gitlin

Change, May, Ourselves

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.
Kevin Rudd

Good, Working, Public

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Nicholson Baker

Worry, Felt, Room

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev

Society, Teacher, Democracy

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