"It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you itâ€™s just words.”
“My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.”
“... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs.”
“... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.”
“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.”
“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

Source : Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.60, Random House
“The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard”
“In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.”

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