"I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total."

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Louise Bourgeois

#Learning Quotes #Science Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.”
“Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.”
“This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered regarded it in that light, so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command; and in place of seeking to assign a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.”
“Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.”
“It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.”
“I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union”

Source : "Belarus President Seeks to Deploy Russia Missiles" by Alan Cullison, www.wsj.com. November 14, 2008.
“There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.”

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