"Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained."

-- Archimedes

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“To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.”

Source : Tan Twan Eng (2009). “The Gift of Rain”, p.69, Weinstein Books
“I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.”
“The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.”
“You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.”
“In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.”

Source : Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company
“I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.”
“The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of plot, character, and language in absurdist drama. Order is a falsehood that we, God, those who came before us, have imposed on a random universe. However, the absurdist is confronted with a curious paradox: though he believes the Universe to be meaningless, he cannot abandon the search for meaning--or he will die.”
“Who are we to ask God if it is his will.”

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