"Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious."

-- Henri Poincare

#Discovery Quotes #Generations Quotes #Soil Quotes

“My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.”
“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”

Source : Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”
“I want my name to mean me.”
“The more we have received in silence, the more we give in action.”
“If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.”
“Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.”
“It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.”
“It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.”

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