"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."

-- Stephen Cole Kleene

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“There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.”
“I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.”
“Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.”
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”

Source : "Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown". Book by Maud Hart Lovelace, 1943.
“I have never observed even the slightest laceration in a woman who used clitoral stimulation as a relaxation method during birth. Clitoral stimulation seems to increase vaginal engorgement as the baby emerges.”
“Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”
“We arenâ€™t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.”

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