"Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.”
“I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.”
“Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!”
“You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.”
“I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.”
“If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.”

Source : Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media
“I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.”
“Sometimes only pain can obliterate pain.”

Source : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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