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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

John Dalberg-Acton

In the development of mathematical ideas, one important initial driving force has always been to find mathematical structures that accurately mirror the behaviour of the physical world. But it is normally not possible to examine the physical world itself in such precise detail that appropriately clear-cut mathematical notions can be abstracted directly from it. Instead, progress is made because mathematical notions tend to have a "momentum" of their own that appears to spring almost entirely from within the subject itself. Mathematical ideas develop, and various kinds of problem seem to arise naturally.

Roger Penrose

How do I really feel about the possibility that all my actions, and those of my friends, are ultimately governed by mathematical principles (...)? I can live with that. I would, indeed, prefer to have these actions controlled by something residing in some (...) aspect of Plato`s fabulous mathematical world than to have them be subject to the kind of simplistic base motives, such as pleasure-seeking, personal greed, or aggressive violence, that many would argue to be the implications of a strictly scientific standpoint.

Roger Penrose

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Brooks Adams

The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That`s funny..."

Isaac Asimov

You can tell the story of the rise of Christianity without any reference to divine assistance. It was a movement like any other, a man-made cult, a cultural contagion passed from mind to mind, a natural example of cultural evolution.

Matt Ridley

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.

The Big Bang Theory (movie)

Year`s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Hal Borland

Acknowledge the day. [...] It`s the only one you`ll have until tomorrow.

Stephen King

The very old and the very young always saw most clearly.

Stephen King

If you can`t let go of the past, the mistakes you`ve made will eat you alive.

Stephen King

Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end.

Stephen King

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

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