"Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X."

-- John C. Baez

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“However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.”
“Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.”
“A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.”

Source : J. R. Moehringer (2012). “Sutton”, p.97, Hachette UK
“I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we donâ€™t deserve love, we think if we let it in weâ€™ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levin said it right. He said, â€œLove is the only rational act.”
“And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, thereâ€™s something stronger â€“ something better, pushing right back.”
“The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.”

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