"Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line."

-- Leopold Kronecker

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“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.”
“Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.”
“I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.”
“The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.”

Source : Talcott Parsons, Peter Hamilton (1985). “Readings from Talcott Parsons”, Chichester [West Sussex] : E. Horwood ; London ; New York : Tavistock Publications
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
“To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.”
“A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.”
“A world without men would consists of a bunch of fat, happy women with no crime.”

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