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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours. Sigmund Freud		Sunday Nov 24, 2024
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To son János: For God's sake, please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life. Bolyai's father urging him to give up work on non-Euclidian geometry. Wolfgang Bolyai

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	Wolfgang Bolyai
	(1775-1856) In P. Davis and R. Hersh The Mathematical Experience, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981, p. 220 - Hungarian mathematician, geometrician.

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To son János: For God's sake, please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life. Bolyai's father urging him to give up work on non-Euclidian geometry.