"I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize."

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (2008). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.72, American Mathematical Soc.

James Joseph Sylvester

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“Itâ€™s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where theyâ€™re not quite telling each other the truth and theyâ€™re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.”
“I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
“Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!”
“Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.”
“When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.”
“I took it really seriously... as serious as any actor could take a movie . I had so much fun doing movie Dragonball . But I take any part I do seriously because I feel a sense of responsibility to the young kids who have saved their money to go and see a movie. I feel it's my responsibility to make it the best I can, because I don't want to let anyone down.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again,”

Source : "Damien Rice announces new album after an eight-year absence" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2014.

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