"There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do."

-- Ilana Mercer

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“How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!”
“Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.”

Source : James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon
“There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.”
“If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.”
“If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that no mathematician of any age or country has ever surpassed Gauss in the combination of an abundant fertility of invention with an absolute vigorousness in demonstration...”

Source : Henry John Stephen Smith (1965). “Collected Mathematical Papers”, p.74, American Mathematical Soc.
“I want a formal apology from the mayor.”
“Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. Â It is about the grace that comes from working together.”
“when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.”

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