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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every
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T. S. EliotBeauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
-Shakespeare, As You Like It

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Ronald Reagan

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and
our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for
politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation
stands forever. --Albert Einstein