"The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"

-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Distance Quotes #Mean Quotes #Special Quotes

“We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.”
“When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again. Today, we are on the verge of a very uncertain situation when either everything will end in catastrophe, or better people will come to power.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”
“It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.”
“We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.”
“The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.”
“Long gone is the time when we [blacks] opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and demand conformity to that norm.... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.”

Source : Clarence Thomas' Speech to the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tennessee, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 28, 1998.
“A man can choose his enemies but not his supporters.”

Source : Ethel Vance, Grace Zaring Stone (1942). “Reprisal”

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