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“I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.”
Source : "Littlewood's Miscellany".
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“Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.”
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“I was unlucky, like my country.”
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“Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.”
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“We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.”
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“When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.”
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“Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.”
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“To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.”
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“Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.”
Source : "Five reasons Greg Hunt may not be the best minister in the world" by Michael Slezak, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2016. 
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“I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.”
Source : "Papers Won't Be Charged for Publishing Muslim Cartoons". www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2006.
