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Colin Maclaurin

"ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient."

Source : Colin MacLaurin (1756). “A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines”, p.1

Colin Maclaurin

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“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“Bryce," she whispers. "What's wrong." I can barely breathe as I ask her, "Do you like him?" "Do I... you mean Jon?" "Yes!" "Well, sure. He's nice and -" "No, do you like him?" My heart was pounding through my chest as I took her other hand and waited. "Well, no. I mean, not like that...." No! She said no! I didn't care where I was, I didn't care who saw. I wanted, just had to kiss her. I leaned in, closed my eyes, and then...”
“I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.”

Source : Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.
“Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.400, Cosimo, Inc.
“I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.”
“The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.”
“Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.”

"ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient."

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