"The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood"

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Source : Daniel O'Connell (1906). “Daniel O'Connell: His Early Life, and Journal, 1795 to 1802”

Daniel O'Connell

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“One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.”
“When you're going to school primarily for career purposes, it's more important to focus on which program is best for you. In addition, your success at college depends far more on what you do at the college than at which college you do it: Choosing the right program, then the right advisor, the right courses, the right term papers, the right co-curricular activities, the right fieldwork, the right internships. You can make those choices at any college.”
“Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.”

Source : Rudy Rucker (2013). “Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality”, p.273, Courier Corporation
“Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy.”
“The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.”
“If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.”
“In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.361
“Everybody's friend is nobody's.”

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