“He who plays for the ultimate prize must risk the ultimate stakes.”
― Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars Prose Novel
― Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars Prose Novel
“No is the wildest word we consign to the language,”
― Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
― Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.”
― If You Ask Me
― If You Ask Me
“no human wants power for its own sake. One wants power because there is something one wishes to do with it.”
― Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars Prose Novel
― Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars Prose Novel
“Platonist view of mathematical ideas: that mathematical truths ‘really’ exist, but they do so in an ideal form in some sort of parallel reality, which has always existed and always will.”
― Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
― Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
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