"We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most."

-- Plutarch

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“As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.”
“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
“Gay people, certainly gay people of my generation, at least of a certain echelon - middle-class Americans - have binocular vision. We all are raised by straight people and grow up with straight people and in straight families, but we all have this totally other way of looking at things. Increasingly as I get deeper into middle age, that is why I resist plunking for any one camp. Because I have this delicious sort of experience of being able to see things in two ways.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!”
“There is a place where God, through the power of the Holy Ghost, reigns supreme in our lives.”
“Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.”

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