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Valerie Valerie said: " 7/29-Today I read 2 essays about Newton and one about Gauss, as well as some of The Geometry by Descartes and and an analysis of infintesmals by Bishop Berkeley. Although the beauty of getting drawn into trying to understand the notations and drawing ...more "


 
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Voltaire
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Douglas Adams
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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
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William Goldman
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
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Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

Bertrand Russell
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
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