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“I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.”

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Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan-French writer born on December 1, 1944. His works, which cover literature, history, and social issues, are renowned for their profound insight and rich imagination. more

“De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'”

“For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.”

Want Care Science Death Millions Died Wounds Timely

Author:John Armstrong

“I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.”

Ifs Heart Said Science Death Presses Thrown Artificial

Author:William DeVries

“It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.”

Seems Action Science Death Difficult Millions Modern Revelations Destructive Fragile Rejoice Organisms Units Infatuation Temperament Distinguished Tripods Delphi

Author:William E. Gladstone

“No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.”

Science Death Dies Nations Natural Behinds Resources Embrace Privilege Population Driving Boundaries Borders Locks Conquest Natural Resources Legion Despots

Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.”

Science Death Actors Talent Fame Lifetime Surgeons

Author:Honore de Balzac

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