"Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician."

-- Robert M. Hutchins

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“All I care is what the boys at the forks of the creek think of me.”
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
“I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.”
“Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.”

Source : Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239
“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”

Source : Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892
“So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top?”
“When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.”
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

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