"She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it."

-- Terry Pratchett

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“Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new business, going back to school), we experience a breakdown of our organizational systems. It's inevitable-we are dealing with a new set of realities-and it takes time to process the information and to actually see what there is to organize.”
“So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.”

Source : "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.
“The only thing that will really matter at the end of your life is: Did you love completely?”
“When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.”
“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the societyâ€™s values, can force it to change.”

Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Jun 20, 2014
“The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.”
“Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”
“Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.”

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