"Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too."

-- Clive Thompson

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“Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.”
“Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.”

Source : "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension". Book by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1977.
“If your child has a weakness, teach them how to turn it into a strength! The only Failure is not trying.”
“The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.”

Source : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.104, Coventry House Publishing
“There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.”
“I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.”
“Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.”
“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”

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