"The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede."

-- Edward Gibbon

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“The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.”

Source : Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company
“Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.”
“The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.”
“Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty What justifies the homicide when he dies?”
“Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.”

Source : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria
“Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.”
“Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.”
“Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.”

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