Every angle acknowledges that it is a likeness of true angularity, for [each angle] is angle not insofar … - Nicholas of Cusa

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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

Nicholas of Cusa

Every angle acknowledges that it is a likeness of true angularity, for [each angle] is angle not insofar as angle exists in itself but insofar as angle exists in something else, viz. , in a surface. And so, true angularity is present in creatable and depictable angles as in a likeness of itself.

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