"Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens."

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Vi Hart

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“Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.”
“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.”

Source : Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.100, Bethany House
“Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.”
“People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.”
“I'm usually the sparkle in a closet full of conservative clothes. Either that or my customer has a closet full of my clothes and a few conservative suits from Calvin Klein. I think you've got to give a girl what's missing from her closet. If something jazzy, tacky or sexy is what's missing, I provide it.”
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”

Source : Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.277, Pickle Partners Publishing
“If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?”
“Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.”

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