"The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge."

-- W. W. Sawyer

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“What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.”
“For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .”
“I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.”
“I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.”

Source : "'Marta Marcy May Marlene' and Mister Sean Durkin". Interview with Matt Singer, www.ifc.com.
“The best vision is insight.”
“A company that was I think the one I learned the most from in Wall Street 2, just in terms of my own character in and the kind of firm he worked in, was John Thomas Financial. There it's like warriors in an arena getting ready for battle. Thomas Belesis just fires these guys up like there is no tomorrow, and I absolutely got addicted to that optimism and adrenaline and that "We're going to do it, we're going to do it, buddy" kind of attitude that he had.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.”

Source : "Soltanto un giornalista" by Indro Montanelli, Rizzoli, Milano, 2002.
“Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”

Source : Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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