"Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see might wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not."”
“I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.”
“What gets measured gets managed.”
“The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.”
“Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.”
“Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.”

Source : William H. Prescott (2005). “The Conquests of Mexico And Peru”, p.819, Cosimo, Inc.
“Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.”

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