"The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight."

-- Philip J. Davis

#Book Quotes #Circles Quotes #Delight Quotes

“A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.”
“To be treaty person means coexist in peace and with mutual respect. That's at the core of these treaties. They intended for us to mutually benefit from sharing the land and its resources. To us, this contract and agreement is a sacred covenant whose signing was witnessed by your God, we call him the Creator, and by your angels, we call them ancestors. You can't break that. We didn't just sign it one day. It took months to prepare, to plan, to seek guidance.”
“I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.”
“I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.”
“Not everybody's confident their whole life.”
“Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.”
“I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.”
“... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.”

Source : Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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