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"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
Cause
"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
Mathematicians
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
Life
"Science is facts."
Science
"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
Mathematicians
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."
Nature
"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."
People
"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
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