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“Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.”

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Pythagoras, born in 571 BC in Greece, was a renowned Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and music theorist. He founded the Pythagorean school, which had a profound impact on the fields of mathematics and philosophy. more

“One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.”

Source: The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill

“Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.”

Looks Two Tree Feet Dog Ten Billions Graves Pity Hills Paradise Mud Two Days Biscuits Wreaths

Author:Eugene O'Neill

“An Airedale can do anything any other dog can do and then whip the other dog if he has to.”

Ifs Can Do Dog Whips

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I should study Nature's laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.”

Should Matter Law Nature Study Expression Communication Source Travel Ocean Unions Streams Wilderness Shore Rays Crossings Magnetic Dealings Aurora

Book:The Wilderness World of John Muir

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.”

Men Should Helping Burden Math

Author:Pythagoras

“The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.”

Past Behinds History Stealing Loud Echoes Hints

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.”

Source: John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California

“Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.”

Way Home Used Half Loneliness Fields Wind Higher Bird Crosses One Way Pencils Permanence Way Home Telegraph Foliage Steeples

Author:A. E. Coppard

“I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.”

Courses Band Bird My Favorite British Invasion Zeppelins Kink Favorite Bands Stooges British Invasion

Author:John Varvatos

“I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.”

I Can Growing Up Growing Singing Technique I Can Read

Author:Mark Morris

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