"Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?""

-- Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

#Fun Quotes #Math Quotes #Inspired Quotes

“Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.”

Source : Barbara Damrosch (1982). “Theme Gardens”, Workman Publishing Company
“I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.”
“I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.”
“I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.”

Source : "Hardball with Chris Matthews" with Campbell Brown, www.nbcnews.com. July 18, 2005.
“Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.”
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
“I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.”

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