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“Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her.
That would be awesome.”
― Eleanor & Park
That would be awesome.”
― Eleanor & Park
“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?”
― A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
― A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you see it, you'll never make it through the night”
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“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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