You can only accomplish the amount you dream.
Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.
Honor is decency without vanity.
It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo. But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.
When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
. . . I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands