I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

(Letter 16, 1657)

Blaise Pascal

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Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.

Isaac Asimov

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What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

Haruki Murakami

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The lads I've met in cupid's deadlock
Were - shall we say? - born out of wedlock

Dorothy Parker

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