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Edward P. Jones 3
Novelist, short story writer 1951Related quotes

The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician (1992)
Context: Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously. This feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work.
Meaning and Purpose of History in Volume I
Historical essays (2001)

The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)

“To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate
That all compete for so beautiful a death.”
Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,
Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
Horace, act II, scene iii.
Horace (1639)

“In life, for one reason or another, we are all slaves of power.”
Original: (it) Nella vita, per un motivo o per un altro, siamo tutti schiavi del potere.
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“Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.”
Birthday Letter to his Daughter (1966)
Context: You should fight to be among the best in school. The very best in every sense and you already know what that means; study and revolutionary attitude. In other words: good conduct, seriousness, love for the revolution, comradeship. I was not that way at your age but I lived in a different society, where man was an enemy of man. Now you have the privilege of living in another era and you must be worthy of it.