"Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another."

-- Alastair Reynolds

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“I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize.”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (2008). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.72, American Mathematical Soc.
“At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan], we had done 60,000 abortions. [During my life] I myself, with my own hands, have done 5,000 abortions. I have supervised another 10,000 that residents have done under my direction. So I have 75,000 abortions in my life. Those are pretty good credentials to speak on the subject of abortion.”
“American people, what about the American people? I think the president delights in the fact that they have been roofied by technology and pop culture. They're not conscious to any expansion of power, which is why they're happy to exist in this dependant decline.”
“Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.”
“The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.”
“For God took a handful of blizzard snow, blew on it and created the horse.”
“One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.”
“Adversity creates heroes.”

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