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We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.: Josephine Hart, "Sin"
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.: from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
Two sodium atoms are walking along the street when one stops and says, "Oh my God, I think I've lost an electron!" "Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom. "Yes," replies the first sodium atom, "I'm positive.": Anonymous
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.: Ralph Abraham
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.: Herbert Westren Turnbull
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.: Anonymous

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