"The perfection of mathematical beauty is such...that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent."

-- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

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“Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.”
“Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble”
“Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.”
“Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.”
“calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.”

Source : Anita Hill (2011). “Speaking Truth to Power”, p.340, Anchor
“It's too easy to give up on the things that are hard to accomplish.”
“And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing
“Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?”

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