"Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation."

-- Ivars Peterson

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“Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices ...”
“I saw something nasty in the woodshed.”

Source : Cold Comfort Farm ch. 10 (1932)
“I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn't hear the delay, although sometimes you did.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com
“You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.”
“Forget about tennis, I was scared to open my mouth. I didnt even feel worthy of saying something and not sounding stupid.”
“I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.”
“I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.”
“The United Nations Childrens Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.”

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