"In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'"

-- Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

#India Quotes #Seven Quotes #Mathematics Quotes

“Why argue about things you can't prove?”
“There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (1918). “Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan”
“With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.”

Source : Alex Shakar (2009). “The Savage Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins
“The most fruitful and worthwhile thing I have ever done has been to teach.”
“In this wonderful book Stephen Buhner shows us that the heart is not a machine but the informed, intelligent core of our emotional, spiritual, and perceptual universe. Through the heart we can perceive the living spirit that diffuses through the green world that is our natural home. Required reading for all owners of a heart.”
“If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.”
“Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.”
“It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.”

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