So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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