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“I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.”
Source : G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press
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“The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.”
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“Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.”
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“It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.”
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“The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.”
Source : Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism Ernest Gellner, Ernest Gellner (2004). “The Devil in Modern Philosophy”, p.33, Routledge
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“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
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“But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?”
Source : Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.248, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.”
