"Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself."

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Source : Claude Fayette Bragdon (2005). “Architecture and Democracy”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

Claude Fayette Bragdon

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“I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.”

Source : "Daredevil completes walk across Niagara Falls". www.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.
“In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.”
“The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.”
“A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.”

Source : F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Xist Publishing
“To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.”
“... combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.”

Source : Robert Kanigel (2016). “The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan”, p.250, Simon and Schuster
“My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.”
“I drank my liver out.”

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