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Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

- C.S. Lewis, In Humanity

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to
study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval
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Ruskin, Lectures on Architecture and Painting, 1853

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
--Albert Einstein