"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"

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“My idea of heaven is, eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.”

“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.”

“I am old, but I certainly have not that sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.”

“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”

“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”

“Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained after his time, but mind — which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume, in 1737.”

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"One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists , so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricit…"

— Joe Haldeman

Literature1943

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"Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them i…"

— Huey P. Newton

Social Activism1942–1989

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