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The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form… — Georg Cantor
There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity… — Georg Cantor
Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and… — Lev S. Vygotsky
Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
But, like all metaphoric wars, the copyright wars are not actual conflicts of survival. Or at least, they are not conflicts for survival of a… — Lawrence Lessig
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution… — Lawrence Lessig
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort… — Roman Jakobson
Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have… — Florence Nightingale
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional… — Meryl Streep
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But… — Henry Hazlitt
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the… — Damon Albarn
If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that… — Marshall Goldsmith
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman… — Peter Singer
The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them… — P.J. O'Rourke
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became… — Eustace Mullins
The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F. R. Leavis
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that… — Unknown Author
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski

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