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“A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.”
Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1903). “My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons”
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“Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.”
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“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”
Source : "Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers". Book by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258, 1999.
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“Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.”
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“It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.”
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“I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.”
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“... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...”
Source : Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.73, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.”