"I feel that what mathematics needs least are pundits who issue prescriptions or guidelines for presumably less enlightened mortals."

-- Armand Borel

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Source : Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books
“None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.”
“As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, ... that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement, with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.”

Source : "A History of the Corruptions of Christianity". Book by Joseph Priestley, Part II: Opinions Relating to the Doctrine of Atonement, Introduction, 1782.
“Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the story and to actually tell the story with the unique emotional and narrative powers of music.”
“Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.”
“I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights.”
“Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”

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