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Geoffrey Chaucer

Literature

1343–1400

"         Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche that men callen daysies in our toun."

"Roughly speaking, states are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power..."

"Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?"

"Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files"

"Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one."

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🇺🇸Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics

pragmatism

1839–1914

"Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."

"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."

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🇨🇭Helen Keller

Literature

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

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🇦🇹Joseph Tiefenthaler

1710–1785

"Close to Sorgadoari is a building constructed lengthways by Nabalray- a Hindu, a formerly lieutenant of the Governor of this region."

"I don't speechify. I know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that's what I ask. But they get mad at the straight line. I just want to ask a tough question."

"The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse."

"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself."

"The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same time it is prepared to infringe any or all of these in the interest of self-preservation."

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🇮🇱Moshe Goshen-Gottstein

Education

1925–1991

"It may be said, without exaggeration, that there is no other text which is documented by such varied types of sources."

"Valentine WeatherKiss me with rain on your eyelashes,come on, let us sway together,under the trees, and to hell with thunder."

"I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones..."

"The worshipful fader and first foundeur and enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our Englissh. I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer."

"For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it."

"The books of men have their day and grow obsolete. God's word is like Himself, "the same yesterday, to-day, and forever."

"3D Peano Curve at Wolfram Library Archive"

"The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify."

"The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake."

🇬🇧Thomas Young (scientist)

Mathematics

1773–1829

"An Introduction to Medical Literature, Including a System of Practical Nosology Thomas Young"

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God..."

"Arguably the best version of Virgil in English poetry."

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🇫🇷Jean-François Lyotard

Philosophy

Continental philosophy

1924–1998

"I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives."

"Fear not the future, weep not for the past."

"The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer."

"All arguments based on the unequal status of texts are questionable. In principle, all ancient readings have an equal status, without relation to the text or translation in which they are found."

"The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil."

"Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once."

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

"We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong"

"The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets."

"Having seen the destruction of alcoholism and heroin addiction in my own family that makes me pretty intolerant of people who are willing to destroy the people around them to indulge themselves."

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