"For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus."

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Source : W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.352, Courier Corporation

W. W. Rouse Ball

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“The heart / That laughs must ache.”
“If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.”
“I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.”
“Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.”

Source : "London 2012: Zara Phillips deals deftly with media's royal obsession" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2012.
“All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There can be delight there and self-discovery. You can dance there... I think of it as my serious playground.”
“Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.”
“I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.205, Grove Press
“I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.”

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