"Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs."

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Source : Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.28

Isaac Barrow

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“I am definitively qualitative about work.”
“My pulse whooshed in my ears so fast I could barely hear myself speak. â€œI only haveâ€”â€ â€œTwo days.â€ He squeezed my hand. â€œSo what? You can spend them feeling sorry for yourself, or you can let me help make them the best two days of your life, and my afterlife. So whatâ€™s it gonna be?â€ I stared into his eyes, like Iâ€™d never seen him before. And I hadnâ€™tâ€”not like this. But heâ€™d obviously seen me, better than anyone else ever had. â€œWell?â€ Tod watched me, his hand still warm in mine. In answer, I leaned forward and kissed him again.”
“We ain't never gonna lose this land.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.112, Penguin
“A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.”
“My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.”
“I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.”
“The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.”
“Assume that everybody can see what you are doing and then live your life that way - you will find that generally you are treated right.”

Source : "InternetTraffic.com Shakes Up Domain Parking Industry – with Frank Schilling". Interview with Michael Cyger, www.domainsherpa.com. May 31, 2011.

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