Corey Graham

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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
― Galileo

tags: truth-discovery

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“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Homer

tags: beauty, mortality, presence

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“The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.”
― Karl Dönitz

tags: americans, chaos, war

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“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

tags: simplicity, truth

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“No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

tags: education, math, mathematics

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