"Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical."

-- David Hilbert

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“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”
“Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.”
“The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.”

Source : Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.167, Butterworth-Heinemann
“I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.”
“Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.”
“The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1872). “Sermons”, p.248
“We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.”
“Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.”

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