#them

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#accurately #appreciate #before #briefly #clearly

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! ↗

— Hilary Putnam

#backward #formulas #i #i think #logic

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#anyhow #been #close #cold #columns

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

Never burn your bridges till you come to them. ↗

— Clayton Rawson

#burn #come #never #them #till

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ↗

— Charles Reade

#children #defend #helpless #like #themselves

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves. ↗

— Herbert Read

#being #believed #care #could #human

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#facts #learning #life #life-lessons #mathematics

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#appearances #era #financial #former #get