"Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot?"

-- Matt Shea

#Inspiring Quotes #Father Quotes #Government Quotes

“Great masters merit emulation, not worship.”
“I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.”

Source : "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.
“Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.”
“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, â€œYou know math, huh? Tell me something Iâ€™ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?â€ I can only reply, â€œThe words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of â€˜infinityâ€™ as if it were a number. Itâ€™s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?â€™ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. â€˜Infinity,â€™ â€˜truth,â€™ â€˜beautyâ€™â€”those are not numbers.”

Source : John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press
“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
“Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press
“I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.”
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”

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