"To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal."

-- Malcolm X

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“To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.”
“The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics; and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.”

Source : John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.620, World Scientific
“When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.”
“My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.”
“No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship”
“I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.”

Source : John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”
“It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.”
“As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.”

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