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Resonant Thoughts

"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."

— David Hilbert

Mathematics1862–1943

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"Taiwan does not oppose that there is only one China in the world, but that does not mean Taiwan is part of China."

— Annette Lu

Politics1944

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"The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art."

— Aaron Copland

Music1900–1990

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"Even when the ray is shot from the sun, it is still part of the parent mass; the sun will still be in the ray, because it is a ray of the sun—there is no division of substance, but merely an extension…"

— Tertullian

Literature

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