"In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts."

-- Andre Weil

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“Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.222, Vintage
“I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.”
“I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!”
“No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.”

Source : "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
“We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.”
“Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11
“Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.”

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