#roof

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

#aviation #capacity #given #impossible #proof

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#bed #breaking #climb #cracking #getting

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#being #difficult #human #human being #last

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#candidate #convention #foundation #going #having

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#i #proof #throw #tradition #you

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#date #greeks #proofs #still #today

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ↗

— Alcaeus

#canals #city #finely #houses #make

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. ↗

— Stefan Banach

#better #between #find #mathematician #notice

I later asked Mr. Jia about the characters for Christmas. He told me they meant 'holy...birth...festival'---Holy Birthday. So while my students may have never heard the Christmas story, their language still recognized its basic significance, all in just three characters. And those three characters expressed the essential meaning far more succinctly than the Latin-based expressions for Christmas I was familiar with. ↗

— Aminta Arrington

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