"Simple English is no oneâ€™s mother tongue. It has to be worked for."

-- Jacques Barzun

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“I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.”

Source : "Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840:From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Vol.1: The Setting". Book by Grattan-Guinness, p. 139, July 1, 1990.
“One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.”
“Those you love leave behind their shadows to walk, always, with you in the form of memories.”
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”

Source : Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”
“If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.”
“time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”

Source : Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”
“And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.”
“Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.”

Source : Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.96, Coventry House Publishing

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