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“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
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“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
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“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.”
Source : "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011. 
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“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
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“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
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“The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.”
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“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
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“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”
