"Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence."

-- Ibn Khaldun

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“Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.”
“Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.”
“A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine.”
“I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.”
“Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.”
“The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.”
“The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.”
“I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.”

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