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Quote Left Everything you need to know about life is somewhere in The Illiad. Quote Right
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Quote Left Reality is never a stranger. If you don't go looking for it, it will come looking for you. Quote Right
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Quote Left What seems odd from the outside usually seems inevitable from the inside. Quote Right
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Quote Left Different is better for someone. Quote Right
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Quote Left Literature is the art of lying in order to tell the truth. Quote Right
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Quote Left Meaning is the outside brought in. Quote Right
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Quote Left If you say, life is only for a moment, I respond, it is for a moment, rejecting 'only'. The moment matters. Quote Right
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Quote Left Mathematicians keep making the same mistake. Irrational numbers, negative numbers, imaginary numbers, undecidability: what is initially seen as an ugly contradiction is in fact an invitation to deepen our understanding of mathematics, and to see its beauty more fully. Undecidability is the discovery of truth oscillators. Quote Right
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Quote Left We know there is a divine realm because mathematics exists. And to those who would say mathematics is a human construction, I respond, you probably haven't done much math. Mathematics is consistently smarter than mathematicians, and its soul is deeper as well. Quote Right
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Quote Left If I can't take it with me, I'm not going. Quote Right
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Quote Left Interest gets interesting when the principal shows up. Quote Right
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Quote Left Love is like falling asleep: it only happens when you let go of yourself. And if it is worthwhile, it is generally true that love precedes the one loved. Quote Right
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Quote Left I don't care what people think unless they do. Quote Right
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Quote Left The basis of farce is undue seriousness. Quote Right
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Quote Left One of the few good things about getting older is that there are so many things not worth caring about that I don't care about anymore. A certain part of wisdom is indifference. Quote Right
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Quote Left The belief that one knows a lot is usually a sign of ignorance. Quote Right
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Quote Left The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is a statement about the Fourier transform, not about nature. The first falls where the second is not applicable. Quote Right
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Quote Left Forgetting is more sophisticated than remembering. Humans are the animals that mastered abstraction. Abstraction is forgetting what does not matter. Quote Right
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Quote Left I am well-traveled in my mind. Life is lived between the ears, the rest is stage setting. Quote Right
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Quote Left Although lost to history, one may imagine that the origin of the phrase 'to face the music' is that Scottish military formations placed their musicians in the rear. So soldiers had the choice of going forward into battle, or turning back and listening to the bagpipes. This accounts for their bravery. Quote Right
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Quote Left Most art is not as good as the artist. But great art is much better than the artist. Because great art is the expression of truth, for which the artist is only a messenger. Quote Right
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Quote Left Civilization is the process of creating new necessities. Quote Right
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Quote Left Good math is discovered. Bad math is invented. Quote Right
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Quote Left Engineers are like offensive linemen. When you hear their names called, it is generally bad news. Quote Right
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Quote Left Engineering is the art of systematically making things boring. When a bridge falls down, that's interesting. When it doesn't fall down, that's engineering. Quote Right
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Quote Left Regarding yoga, pretzels should be eaten, not imitated. Quote Right
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Quote Left I would say that I sing like a tone-deaf crow, were I not afraid that some crow would sue me for libel. Quote Right
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Quote Left When thinking is only worrying, don't think. Quote Right
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Quote Left Some people like to announce that they are twits. Ignore them. No one's opinion can bother you unless you respect it. Quote Right
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Quote Left Life does not come with scoring guidelines. You have to decide for yourself what is important. The worst decision is no decision. Then you are guaranteed a bad result. Quote Right
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