"Mathematics is for lazy people."

-- Peter Hilton

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“I'm learning that when you get out into the world and you try things, it's amazing that you'll find how strong you are when you have to be.”
“We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.”
“Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things. You know all that stuff weâ€™ve always said about you?â€ I whispered. â€œWhat a total pain you are? Donâ€™t believe it. Donâ€™t believe it for a minute, Marley.â€ He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went. Marley,â€ I said. â€œYou are a great dog.”
“I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.”

Source : "Denmark's Thorning-Schmidt heads to Downing Street to meet David Cameron" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.
“You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.”
“There are plenty of times we need fierce compassion, fierce love. Just like when a child does something that is very harmful and we say "No!", we need some kind of fierceness. There's a certain kind of fierceness that can look like anger and has that fire of anger, but the difference is that it's not blinded with reactivity.”
“If something fit in with what God had said to me, then I considered it. If not - no matter how attractive it appeared - I refused. The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.”
“Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.”

Source : Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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