"As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun."

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Source : Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan

Martin Gardner

#Two Quotes #Sun Quotes #Four Quotes

“We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
“In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God's estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on God who alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation.”
“My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.”
“When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.”
“I can't stand it when a player whines to me or his teammates or his wife or the writers or anyone else. A whiner is almost always wrong. A winner never whines.”
“The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.”
“There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.”

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