"Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories."

-- Raymond Louis Wilder

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“What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.”
“A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichÃ©d notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.”
“The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.”
“Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?”

Source : Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”
“Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.”

Source : "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.
“It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.”
“Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in â€œThe Enterprise Incidentâ€] was totally out of context. Any Romulan worth her salt would have instantly suspected Spock because they are related races. That was wrongmy biggest objection is the scene between Spock and the woman, because I really did not believe it. And I did not believe that the Romulan did not suspect Spock of something underhanded. She does know enough about Vulcan and Vulcans to know that something's afoot.”
“To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.”

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