"In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it."

-- Thomas Guthrie

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“All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.”
“As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.”

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“Happiness is the sense that one matters.”
“In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.”
“What triggered a migraine for me may have no effect on someone else. For many people, coffee can relieve symptoms somewhat, but for me it was a trigger. You really have to find out what affects you individually.”
“I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.”
“I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!”
“March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.”

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