"I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and study them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists."

-- Charles Hermite

#Believe Quotes #Character Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
“When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.”

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“I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?”
“I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.”
“The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2010). “Cloaked in Red”, p.104, Marshall Cavendish
“When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.”
“It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]”

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