"The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization."

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Source : John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

John G. Kemeny

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“The beauty industry is always led by innovation. When you think about over the past three or four years, some of the best innovation in our industry has come from Korea.”
“Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The concept of 'home' is not just where one resides, but where the heart resides; in the purest depths of the soul.â™¥”
“Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.”
“I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A with Carney's Reeve Carney". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 19, 2011.
“I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.”
“I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.”
“In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin.'”

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