"Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature."

-- John Ruskin

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“A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.”
“I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.”
“To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.”
“BeingÂ veganÂ is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. Â First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.”
“They say that nameless things change constantlyâ€”that names fix them in place like pins.”
“The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph...”
“Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage
“Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.”

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