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“A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.”
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“Usually, when things suck, it’s because they suck in a way that’s a Nash equilibrium.”
― Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
― Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true. [...] Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. People who have been puzzled by the beginnings of mathematics will, I hope, find comfort in this definition, and will probably agree that it is accurate.”
― Mysticism and Logic
― Mysticism and Logic
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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
― The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
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