"When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?"

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Source : "The Myth of Executive Functioning". Book by Leonard F. Koziol, p. 1, 2014.

Enrico Bombieri

#Math Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra. "Almost seven years." "Then you have probably forgotten all about it." "Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.”
“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
“Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.”
“O Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I would like to be filled with love for You; keep me closely united with You, may my heart be near to Yours. I want to be to You like the apostle John. O Mary of the Rosary, keep me recollected when I say these prayers of yours; bind me forever, with your rosary, to Jesus of the Blessed Sacrament. Blessed be Jesus, my love..”

Source : Pope John XXIII, (2000). “Journal of a Soul”, p.50, A&C Black
“Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.”
“We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.”

Source : "Cochabamba: Mining protests overshadow climate summit" by Claudia Lopez Pardo, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2010.
“We are educating people out of their creative capacities.”
“The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.”

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