Farkas Bolyai Quotes
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
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I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.
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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
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...like a predator about to devour the target.
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Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
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Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
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I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.
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It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
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The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.
