"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."

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Source : Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.102, Open Road Media

Robert R. McCammon

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“Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
“They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.”
“As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.”
“I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.”
“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.”
“Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.”
“If most of what we see via the media is not live, it must be edited: sifted for value, interpreted and re-presented for our convenience. We live in a disco, and the DJ is in charge.”
“But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.”

Source : Julian Lowell Coolidge (2013). “A History of Geometrical Methods”, p.423, Courier Corporation

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