"I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him."

-- Lucian

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“We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.”

Source : Speech to the National Convention, February 05, 1794.
“Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.”
“Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.”
“You are an independent mind in this universe that can do everything and anything you have ever dreamed of.”
“O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.”
“In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,â€ Turing had advised. â€œRather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.”
“Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.”

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