"A different image came to me a few weeks ago.The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth orhard marl, resisting penetration the sea advances insensibly insilence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is sofar off you hardly hear it yet it finally surrounds the resistantsubstance."

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Source : "Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800-1950)". Book edited by Karen Hunger Parshall and‎ Jeremy J. Gray, September 6, 2007.

Alexander Grothendieck

#Moving Quotes #Sea Quotes #Water Quotes

“What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?”
“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.”
“He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.”
“If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.”
“Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.”

Source : "Gawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to pick fight with BuzzFeed" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.
“I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart”
“In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]”
“Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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