"Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics."

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Source : "The Development of Mathematics" by Eric Temple Bell, (p. 9), 1940.

Eric Temple Bell

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“I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.”
“A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'”
“People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.”
“I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.”
“The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.”

Source : A. Meredith Walters (2014). “Light in the Shadows”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!”
“There are so many sci-fi fans and it's such a big business now. So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal. I would be lying if I said that the fact that I had been on a very popular sci-fi show and had some recognition in that world didn't help me get the job on another sci-fi show.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“One thing America truly does stand for is a million different ways of living. But while we enjoy the lives we have, we're so privileged. We live in a world that's so far from what the Palestinian children are going through, it's unbelievable. Yet if we dare to get close to that atrocity and name it, it would shock us so badly we couldn't live in our privileged comfort zone.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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