"Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics."

-- Brian Greene

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“If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.”
“The fruit of our labors is sweet when the work is consecrated to God. But we have to be able to weather the conditions - the winds, the rain or the drought, the brilliant sun and sometimes the bitter cold. Sometimes our work needs to be directed at improving our ground rather than excusing our own harvests because the place we have been given is a little hard; there are too many rocks, too many hills, too little top soil. If we focus on where we are instead of what we can do with our plot, we will find our efforts significantly diminished.”
“The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (1998). “Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley”, p.135, MIT Press
“In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.”

Source : JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”
“Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.”
“Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defence, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress?”
“A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.”

Source : "Fictional character: Edna Tucker". "Force of Evil", www.imdb.com. 1948.

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