"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."

-- Plato

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“We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.”
“Sometimes I do readings and people canâ€™t stop laughing, but Iâ€™m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. Itâ€™s despair â€” just keep laughing, until you are dead.”

Source : "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.
“It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.”

Source : Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”
“There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave”
“I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.”
“The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand that this is not a favor or a concession, but simply their natural right to be recognized as belonging to a culture that is distinct from the Western culture, a culture in which they have to live their own faith.”
“You don't choose who you love.”
“Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.”

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