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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Jim Rohn Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • David Gemmell May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Seneca May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Patrick Blackett May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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  • W. H. Auden May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Tom Hanks May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
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  • Berenice Bejo Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Benjamin Walker Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bjork Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Philip Roth Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
    American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • B. D. Wong Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Ben Folds Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Sister Corita Kent Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
    Sister Corita Kent
    American artist, educator, and advocate for social justice
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  • Hermann Hesse Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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