"The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday."

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Lawren Harris

#Yesterday Quotes #Today Quotes #Language Quotes

“Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.”
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”
“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
“books are like confort food without the calories”
“As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 4: "Princeton Days", p. 76, 1991.
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
“It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything”

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