"Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less."

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Source : Stanislaw Marcin Ulam (1986). “Science, Computers, and People: From the Tree of Mathematics”

Stanislaw Ulam

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.”
“It is almost impossible for the poetess, once laurelled, to take off the crown for good or to reject values and taste of those who tender it.”
“I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.”
“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.”
“Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.”
“Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.”
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”

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