"Better die standing than live kneeling."

-- Pericles

#Kneeling Quotes #Standing Quotes

“I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.”
“I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.”

Source : "Foundations of a General Theory of Aggregates". Book by Georg Cantor, 1883.
“Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.”
“During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.”
“...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1869). “Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, Exeter, August 19th, 1869”, p.6
“A movie of mine is going to be released in Japan next year. I play a waitress who's a really regular girl in this movie. The English title isn't decided yet, but in Japanese it's I'll Get on the A Train Sometime.”
“Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.”
“Viola? Keep calling for meâ€“ And Iâ€™ll keep searching for youâ€“ And Iâ€™ll find youâ€“ You bet yer life on itâ€“ Iâ€™ll find youâ€“ Keep calling for me, Violaâ€“ Cuz here I come.”

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