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Quote by Patrick Pearse

“A country without a language is a country without a soul.”

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Patrick Pearse was an Irish poet and nationalist, born on November 10, 1879, and died on May 3, 1916. He is known for his poetry and contributions to the Irish nationalist movement. more

“I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.”

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“Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.”

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“What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.”

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