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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― The Anthologist
― The Anthologist
“The one wants a friend for his own advantage; the other wants to make himself an advantage to his friend.”
― Letters from a Stoic
― Letters from a Stoic
“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― The Long Fall
― The Long Fall
“the appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
― The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: All poems and short stories
― The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: All poems and short stories
“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by profession; others went into mathematics from theology, the law, and medicine, and one of the greatest was as crooked a diplomat as ever lied for the good of his country. A few have had no profession at all. Stranger yet, not all professors of mathematics have been mathematicians. But this should not surprise us when we think of the gulf between the average professor of poetry drawing a comfortable salary and the poet starving to death in his garret.”
― Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Books
― Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Books
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