"Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject."

-- Shakuntala Devi

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“Your success is not dependent upon a board of advisers, it's not dependent upon motivational speakers who've gone before you,they're living their lives, they're taking care of their family, they're doing what they have to do to be successful, nobody owes you anything, that was the biggest lesson for me.”
“We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.”
“Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.”
“We see the world through our experience.”
“Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?”
“With the strong global appeal of the Playboy brand and the differentiated content offered, we have built a men's destination site with multiple revenue streams, including e-commerce, advertising, subscription and pay-per-view, ... In addition, our recent acquisition of the Spice brand gives us an opportunity to create a separate site, cross-promoted with the Spice TV network.”
“We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.”

Source : R. V. Jones in Bulletin of the Institute of Physics (1962) vol. 13, p. 102
“Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, 1929.

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