"I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint."

-- Elsie de Wolfe

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“I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.”
“Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.”
“I was told by my father, who was a priest, that it was the basic duty of a Muslim to establish peace on earth... I soon came to the conclusion that it was not religion but misuse of religion and politicising of religion, which was the main culprit.”

Source : Asghar Ali Engineer's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
“Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.”
“Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as a systematic, deductive science; but mathematics in the making appears as an experimental, inductive science. Both aspects are as old as the science of mathematics itself.”

Source : George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”
“The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.”
“I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization." God realization is the place where in your heart you take your thoughts and ask yourself, "Are they in harmony with the source I originated from?"”
“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”

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