"Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it wants to bring about the truth it proclaims; a form of action, of ritual behavior, which does not find fulfilment in the act but must proclaim and elaborate a poetic form of truth."

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Source : Salomon Bochner “Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner”, American Mathematical Soc.

Salomon Bochner

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“I like to think I've been a good example and an inspiration to some people. And some people say that about me, but I'm just going about my work and doing what I do best. I'm a very professional 'Me.'”
“Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.”

Source : "Chris Messina: Hollywood's Busiest Man and His Existential Questions". Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 15, 2013.
“Why should I be worried about death?...”
“When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.”
“Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.”
“I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.”
“Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.”
“My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away”

Source : Song: If I Can't Have You

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