SaturdayMay 30, 2026
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Advertising may be described as the science of stopping human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of each day and hour.
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon. So died, for each of us, still bravely fighting, our mathematical training; except for a set of people called 'mathematicians' -- born so, like crooks.
It may be that those who do most, dream most.
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