"What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
“The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.”

Source : Quoted in Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights (1926)
“She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.”
“When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.”

Source : "POLITICO interview: Gov. Fortuno". Interview with Alexander Burns Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. May 22, 2009.
“I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.”

Source : "David Walliams swim in river Thames makes a million for charity" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.
“I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.”
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”

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