"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“I would slay dragons for you,â€ he told her. â€œI suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.”
“The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.”
“Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.”

Source : "The Chocolate Soldier". Book by C. T. Studd, 1990.
“Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.”
“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”
“That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.”

Source : "Fantastically Wrong: One Astronomer’s Quest to Expose the Alien-Built Canals of Mars" by Matt Simon, www.wired.com. May 21, 2014.
“This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobodyâ€™s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.”
“The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.”

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