"Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time."

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Source : Frank Yerby (1967). “Goat song: a novel of ancient Greece”

Frank Yerby

#Death Quotes #Men Quotes

“I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.”
“Who or what are you? Besides insufferably rude?”
“According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.”
“Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.”

Source : "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. Rose, 1986.
“We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")”
“The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.”
“I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.”
“Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.”

Source : "The Hermit's Emergency Shelf". "How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House". Book by Will Cuppy, 1929.

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