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"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences."
By Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
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"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
By George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
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"Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds."
By Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
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"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
By John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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"My music is best understood by children and animals."
By Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
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"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
By John F. Kennedy
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"Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate."
By Tom Robbins
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"Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass."
By Tom Robbins
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"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
By -John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Money is the sinew of love as well as war."
By Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form."
By Plato
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"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived."
By Machiavelli, The Prince
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"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
By Ambrose Bierce
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"Middle age is when your age starts to show around the middle."
By Bob Hope
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"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
By Thomas Carlyle
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"Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."
By Ludwig van Beethoven
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"Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
By Ludwig van Beethoven
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"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."
By Jack Benny
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"My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer."
By General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
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"Men go abroad to wonder the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."
By St. Augustine
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