Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
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It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
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I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
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Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.
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When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.
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God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.
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We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.
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God deliver me from the dread asbestos of “other things.” Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.
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Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
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I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. es
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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.
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Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
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Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.
