"I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me."

-- David Crosby

“What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.”

Source : Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
“We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.”
“Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?”

Source : Song: Memories, Part 2, 2011
“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.”
“It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.”
“Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.”
“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”
“I went to my first college to play soccer.”

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