"Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it."

-- Johann Heinrich Lambert

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“Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.”
“I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.”
“When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.”
“Marijuana allows one to take a breath and see the realities of a situation without the news beating their interpretation into our brains. Pot relaxes you.”
“I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.”

Source : G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.115, Cambridge University Press
“I usually tell somebody if a songâ€™s for them. I donâ€™t always tell them if itâ€™s about them.”
“Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale.”
“Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.”

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