"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."

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Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.126

James Joseph Sylvester

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“We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK
“When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.”

Source : Source: tech.blorge.com
“Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.”
“Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.”
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”

Source : 'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)
“Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?”
“I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.”

Source : "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.
“I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.”

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