For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents, which started to happen to somebody else.

 

[the GOAT]

Correct handling of flowers refines the personality.

 

[the GOAT]

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

 

[the GOAT]

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

 

[the GOAT]

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

 

[the GOAT]

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

 

[the GOAT]

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

 

[the GOAT]

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

 

[the GOAT]

The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.

 

[the GOAT]

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

 

[the GOAT]

When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.

 

[the GOAT]

Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.

 

[the GOAT]

I cannot feel good about being a woman unless you feel bad about being a man. I cannot be proud of being black unless you are ashamed of being white. I cannot respect myself for being gay unless you are embarrassed that you are straight. Tolerance has been put by the boards; it is a stale and bitter thing and we will have none of it. Equality, likewise; is condescending at best and in truth intended to demean. If I am to achieve the inner harmony and self-respect that is my due, it will not suffice for you and I to be equals. No! Nothing less than superiority will make me happy. And to ensure that I make my point, I shall commend your libraries to the flames, rewrite your histories, purge your dictionaries, and arm the thought police with power to enforce political correctness in all speech and apprehension.

 

[the GOAT]

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

 

[the GOAT]

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

 

[the GOAT]

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

 

[the GOAT]

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

 

[the GOAT]

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

 

[the GOAT]

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

 

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

Post increase....for no reason now.