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“Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?”
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“I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.”
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“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.”
Source : Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”
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“Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.”
Source : Michael Korda (1999). “Another Life: A Memoir of Other People”, Random House Incorporated
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“The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.”
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“If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.”
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“Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.”
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“...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?”
