"[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary."

-- Hermann Hankel

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“If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.”
“By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong.”
“It is the spectators who make the pictures.”
“Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.”
“Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.”
“Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.”
“If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.”
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

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