"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."

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Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

Simon Newcomb

#Real Quotes #Sensual Quotes #Navy Quotes

“I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.”
“Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.”
“What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.”
“Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.”
“Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have sex.”
“I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, donâ€™t accept your limitations, jump before youâ€™re pushed, leap before you look.”

Source : "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.”
“The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.”

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