""Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science."

-- James Gleick

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“When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.”
“If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.”

Source : John of Ruysbroeck, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage”, p.132, Aeterna Press
“You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.”
“A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like "I'm happy! I swear!" I'm not buying it. I don't believe them.”
“If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him.”
“Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes”
“We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.”
“A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.”

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