"I had considered how the things that..." - Quote by Charles Dickens
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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“I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.”
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“How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?”
“You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.”
“No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”