"PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is."

-- Eric Temple Bell

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“There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.”
“People donâ€™t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you donâ€™t live up to their snap judgments.”
“What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you canâ€™t operate an entire conventional system, whether itâ€™s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for.”
“Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.”
“SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.”
“I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I've never had a dream that didn't come true, if I waited long enough.”

Source : "Fictional character: Black Michael". "The Prisoner of Zenda", www.imdb.com. 1937.
“Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easier. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.”

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