"A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule."

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Source : George Oppen, Michael Davidson (2002). “New Collected Poems”, p.357, New Directions Publishing

George Oppen

#Would Be Quotes #Mathematical Quotes #Term Quotes

“Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.”
“Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.”

Source : L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK
“My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.”
“He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.”

Source : Samuel Pepys (1858). “Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes”, p.341
“And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there”
“The only ones who fly are the one who dare to fly.”
“The perfect classroom is Paris.”

Source : Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books
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