"We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics."

-- Jean Dieudonne

#Mathematics Quotes

“I do like having my ears pierced, because there's a lot more choice in pierced earrings than there is with clip-ons, and they're a lot more comfortable to wear - Sometimes I completely forget I've got them in and end up going to sleep wearing them.”
“No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.”
“May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.”

Source : "Fictional character: George Jung". "Blow", 2001.
“Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.”
“Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.”
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
“The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.”
“The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.”

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