"The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker."

-- James Jeans

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“Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.”
“I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.”

Source : "CLICK Blog" by Tim Man, www.politico.com. July 19, 2012.
“Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.”
“We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.”
“Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.”
“I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“If you want to kill time, try working it to death.”

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