"Like musicians who can read and write complicated scores in a world without sounds, for us mathematics is a source of delight, excitement, and even controversy which are hard to share with non mathematicians. In our small micro-cosmos we should ever seek the right balance between competition and solidarity, criticism and empathy, exclusion and inclusion."

-- Gil Kalai

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“Hey ! Ain t it glorious to be living?”
“The only weapon I've got is comedy”
“I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.”
“My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?”
“I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!”

Source : "Charice: The next Celine Dion?" by Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2010.
“I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.”
“Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.”
“Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.”

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