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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#creating #god #mathematics #used #world

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

#heart #match #mind #persuasion

This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows. ↗

— John Barnes

#calliope #dead-princes #sleeping-beauty #stories #tales

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#dealing #documentaries #ends #floor #honesty

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #germany #hammer #lutheran #martin-luther

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#comes #marble #material #more #out

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#driving #i #policemen #ridiculous #secondly

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#able #dare #given #lower #matters

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#animated #character #directing #doing #i