"[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn."

-- Eric Temple Bell

#Teenager Quotes #Boys Quotes #Yarn Quotes

“I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.”
“If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.”
“Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.”
“He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.”

Source : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.48, e-artnow
“I don't like to joke about dating.”
“Our opportunities to do good are our talents.”

Source : Cotton Mather (1825). “Essays to Do Good”, p.69
“I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.”
“I never hung around people who took hard drugs, and much less hung around artists who took hard drugs. All I know is that people should listen to their bodies more. The body is a temple. We aren't here forever. Take care of that space suit and make the best of it till the wheels fall off.”

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