"The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite."

-- Gian-Carlo Rota

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“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.4, Counterpoint Press
“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
“Life is terrorism, so spare me your indignation. Life is one big infiltration of our secure defenses. Some people put bombs on buses and blow them up: those are terrorists. Some people speak to you and their words blow you up: what would you call those people? Life is a condemned cell. . . . That's the only way to protect yourself . . . to understand that you're always under sentence of death and to try to get a temporary remission.”
“The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love .”
“Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.”
“When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.”
“I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.”

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