"Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do."

-- Thomas Pynchon

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“Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.”
“I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“I want to give people the message and let them feel my emotion behind it.”

Source : Source: www.artistdirect.com
“The will of God is not something you add to your life. Itâ€™s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of Godâ€¦or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.”
“When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.”
“If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.”

Source : Bonnie Fuller (2006). “The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--the Great Career, the Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted (even If You're Afraid You Don't Have what it Takes)”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us...I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God...We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation.”
“Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.”

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