"In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant."

-- Matthew Arnold

#Home Quotes #Class Quotes #Insulting Quotes

“I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong”
“Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own questions, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? Where does the proof use the hypothesis?”

Source : "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
“The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.”
“Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.”

Source : Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)”, p.29, Harper Collins
“You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.”
“I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.”
“Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.”
“Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?”

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