"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune."

— Charles Lamb

Literature1764–1847

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"One of the first algebraists to accept negative numbers was... who occasionally placed a negative number by itself on one side of an equation. But he did not accept negative roots.... gave clear defin…"

— Morris Kline

Mathematics1908–1992

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"Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this."

— Wesley Clark

Military1944

#politics