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“But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.”
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“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.”
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“It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do. . .If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.”
Source : Mark Mills (2008). “The Savage Garden”, p.71, Penguin
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“A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity...”
Source : Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”
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“Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.”
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“For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.”
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“The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.”
Source : "Communications on the Theory of the Transfinite ('Mitteilungen zur Lehre vom Transfiniten')". Book by Georg Cantor, 1888.
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“[Being a celebrity] In a word, it's terrible. In two words...Really terrible.”
