"The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness."

-- Rene Thom

#Math Quotes #Ideas Quotes #World Quotes

“Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?”
“Poetry can magnify experience.”

Source : May Swenson (1971). “More poems to solve”, Atheneum
“People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.”
“Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.”
“I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend on are disposable as well. What gives me hope is the kind of bridgework I'm seeing between social movements on the one hand, and young writers and artists on the other, all intent on opposing such pitiless, short-term thinking.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

Source : Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.
“Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've liv'd amid the forest gloom Until I almost fear-- When will the thrilling voices come My spirit thirsts to hear?”

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