"A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?"

-- John G. Kemeny

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“I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.”
“I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.”
“If you love something, set it free. And if it really loves you, it will find a way to come back.”
“Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.”
“The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.”

Source : Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”
“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”
“When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.”

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