"... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics"

-- Max Black

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“How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.”
“Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes.”
“Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.”
“Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.”
“On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit.... Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.”

Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.
“The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.”

Source : "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.
“It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.”

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