"In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'."

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Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

Emanuel Celler

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“Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.”
“We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen.”

Source : "Romania demands equality - Europe - International Herald Tribune" by Nicholas Wood, www.nytimes.com. August 29, 2006.
“Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.”
“Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.”
“Reason is simply a vast tautology.”

Source : J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.25, Princeton University Press
“I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.”
“Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as a systematic, deductive science; but mathematics in the making appears as an experimental, inductive science. Both aspects are as old as the science of mathematics itself.”

Source : George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”
“Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”

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