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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due...
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been...
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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible – indeed, inevitable – the...
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close...
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little...
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A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air...
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Quote #7027
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.