"Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions."

-- Charles Sanders Peirce

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“I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.”
“The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.”
“Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation.”
“When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy”
“You seeyou can beat a dog and it's going to do one of two things..it's gonna roll over and die or it's going to bite you and attack you. And I'm the kind of person..uh..whose the type of dog that will bite back..I wasn't going to roll over and die”
“The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

Source : Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.169, Booklassic
“When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.”
“I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.”

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