"Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond."

-- Gottfried Leibniz

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“No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.”

Source : Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.31, Penguin
“The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday”

Source : Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.299, Microsoft Press
“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”
“Numerical superiority is of no consequence. In battle, victory will go to the best tactician."- G. A. Custer”
“Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.”
“Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.”
“I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means good.”
“Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life”

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