"I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it."

-- Harry Houdini

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“I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."”
“Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.”

Source : Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.
“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.”
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.”
“When youâ€™re taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions youâ€™ve got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what youâ€™re doing is fair and seen to be fair.”
“We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.”
“The first step into the realm of giving is...not manward but Godward: an utter yielding of our best. So long as our idea of surrender is limited to the renouncing of unlawful things, we have never grasped its true meaning: that is not worthy of the name for 'no polluted thing' can be offered.”
“After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.”

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