"I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.”
“I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.”
“On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance. The creative evolution of his community and his own creative evolution must always be the two earnest purposes of the individual. Its own creative evolution and that of the individuals in its midst must always be the two earnest purposes of the community.”

Source : "Essays with a Purpose".
“A great brand is a story that's never completely told.”
“Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.”
“I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.”
“Have you ever had your ass whooped on by a black man before? It hurts!”
“We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!”

Source : Harold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys (1999). “Methods of Mathematical Physics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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