"I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty"

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“There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!”
“Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.”
“Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.”
“The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.”
“It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.”

Source : Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.47, Hazelden Publishing
“I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.”
“A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.”
“The harder I work, the luckier I become.”

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