"The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out there" all along I just couldn't see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game- the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods."

-- Paul Lockhart

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“Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.”
“...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.”
“I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.”
“There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or ***** it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”
“Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.96, Macmillan
“It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.”
“The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.”

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