"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician."

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Karl Weierstrass

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“I stopped making films to look after animals.”
“A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis
“To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground.”

Source : "Jill Hennessy Returns to Her First Love: Music". Interview with Lesley Messer, people.com. October 24, 2008.
“Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.”
“The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.”
“We must acknowledge that bearing and raising children is not some pesky, peripheral activity that we engage in, but the whole point.”
“It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.382, Carroll & Graf
“You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.”

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