"[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my part, the judgement of posterity, I would dare predict that this method will be accused one day, and rightly, of having retarded the progress of the mathematical sciences."

-- Francois-Joseph Servois

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“I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.”
“If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research”
“It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.”

Source : "'Spain... on the road Again' ('A Sultan’s View of Andalucía')". TV show, November 08, 2008.
“Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”
“And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.”
“The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.28, Random House
“I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!”

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