"Can't all beasts be tamed?"

-- Robin McKinley

“Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.”
“There is an ideological colonization we have to be careful of that tries to destroy the family.”
“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.”
“I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?”
“No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.”
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat, Wallis, and Barrow. It was Newton's good luck to come at a time when everything was ripe for the discovery, and his ability enabled him to construct almost at once a complete calculus.”

Source : W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.347, Courier Corporation
“Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.”
“I'd rather report to four million people as the elected Sheriff than some governor or president, so I like reporting to the people.”

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