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We have played hymns and songs that people know like ?The Star-Spangled Banner? or ?Battle Hymn of the Republic.? Sometimes people like to sing along.


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CHEN-NING YANG The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I special...
CHEN-NING YANG The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
CHEN-NING YANG As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am i...
CHEN-NING YANG Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a...
CHEN-NING YANG The strongest interactions are the nuclear interactions, which include the forces that bind nuclei t...
CHEN-NING YANG I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to...
CHEN-NING YANG I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University a...
CHEN-NING YANG Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKS Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKS If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one...
HERB BROOKS You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
HERB BROOKS Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS