"... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder..."

-- Jostein Gaarder

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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Source : "The price of libraries is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation" by Abigail Tarttelin, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.
“[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.”
“Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.”
“I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.”
“And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.178, Lulu Press, Inc
“The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.”
“Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 277, 1991.
“We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.”

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