"What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else"

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Joseph Campbell

#Past Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Growth Quotes

“It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.”

Source : "Mathematics in the Modern World". Scientific American, Vol 211, (p. 42), September 1964.
“The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.”
“Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.”
“Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.”
“The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.”

Source : "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.
“He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.”

Source : Suzanne Brockmann (2004). “Hot Target”, p.53, Ballantine Books
“Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get, that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian Jiu-jitsu is.”
“Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.”

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