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The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

Source: In The Search For Truth, p. 191, by R. Crayshaw-Williams.
-- Eric Temple Bell, (Feb 7 1883-1960), Scottish-US mathematician, educator, writer; He discovered several important theorems in the field of number theory, dealing with the properties of integers.

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