"My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone."

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Source : "Joe Paterno Cried Uncontrollably After He Was Fired, And Other Details From His Controversial New Biography" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. August 15, 2012.

Joe Paterno

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“I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.”
“I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.”
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

Source : The New York Post, February 29, 1960.
“If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.”
“Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.”
“When people run a business and open their door to the public, they must serve the public. That doesn't mean they can't say whatever they want to say. It doesn't mean they can't believe whatever they want to believe. Those are protected also. But businesses must serve the public. And that's a principle that we fought for in this country over many, many decades, when some were invoking religious freedom as an excuse to deny people on the basis of their race, on the basis of their religion, on the basis of sex and on the basis now of sexual orientation. Let's not confuse one thing with the other.”
“I like to joke with my wife that she's the CEO of... certainly of our household.”
“When you have an audience that embraces you that much, you really want to give them your best. It becomes a really interactive experience instead of just playing a show to random people - there's a connection.”

Source : Source: www.refinery29.com

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