"The present is great with the future."

--

Gottfried Leibniz

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
“Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.”
“In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the audience. Same with directing. If you are able to draw out the best from your actors, then you fulfill your job as a director.”
“Are you mine?â€ Yes. â€œAre you mine?â€ Yes. â€œAre you mine?â€ No. â€œNo?â€ No. I loved being yours. But now Iâ€™m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.”
“I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.”

Source : Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media
“[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors.”

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