"Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?"

-- Aeschylus

#Causes Quotes #Done Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If you donâ€™t have fun, itâ€™s hard to do your best. Itâ€™s not going to be enjoyable.”
“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”
“Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books
“I like to see people doubt me.”
“Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.”
“[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.”
“Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.”
“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”

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