"Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency."

-- Hugh Prather

#Believe Quotes #Consistency Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“. . . he felt himself entering a moment so real he could only run toward it, shouting.”
“Nobody is going to put a limit on what I'm doing.”
“You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.”
“I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore.”
“I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.”
“Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.”
“If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they donâ€™t speak out for themselves, all theyâ€™ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced â€” writersâ€™ voices, teachersâ€™ voices, studentsâ€™ voices â€” and all because of fear.”
“In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.”

Source : James R. Newman (1960). “The World of Mathematics”, p.367, Рипол Классик

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