"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Inspirational Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.”
“So far, this is the oldest I've been.”
“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.159, Univ of California Press
“Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.”
“There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.”
“Let's win one for the Gipper.”
“I used my pants to illustrate.”
“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.”

Source : Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”

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