#pa

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#handled #ill #moment #pain #patiently

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#leftists #once #other #parties #power

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#had #happier #men #same #silent

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#currently #fly #guitar #i #midi

I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#awesome #championship #championship team #chance #competitive

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#before #else #key #key to success #preparation

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed