"A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time."

-- Howard Whitley Eves

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“All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.”
“Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.”

Source : Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.374, Hachette UK
“In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.”
“I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.”
“I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.”
“It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.”
“We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.”
“Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.”

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