Today Quotes
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Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing."William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.Bette Davis
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.Plato, in Symposium
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no "royal road" to geometry.Euclid, to king Ptolemy I
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.Virginia Woolf
Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics"
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
All dimensions are critical dimensions, otherwise why are they there?Russ Zandbergen