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“As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…”
― David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics

“The game theoretical analysis of the chain store game by backward induction is very easy and does not put any strain on the cognitive abilities of human beings. Even game theoretically untrained persons understand the backward induction argument without difficulty. Nevertheless, the conclusion is behaviorally unacceptable. The author was so worried about this contradiction that he felt three weeks of physical discomfort.”
― Reinhard Selten, Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox

“Chỉ có hoạn nạn con người mới có thể học một bài học về sự yêu thương.”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần

“Một món quà bao giờ cũng đẹp. Khi ta nhận hay cho một món quà, ta cũng đẹp lây vì món quà đó.”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần

“Tôi hiểu, khu vườn là món quà bất tận của tôi. Mỗi bông hoa là một món quà nhỏ, một vườn hoa là món quà lớn.”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần

“Bố tôi vẫn nói, khi một người thương yêu của ta ra đi, cũng giống như chúng ta cắt lìa từng khoảng trời trong trái tim mình. Đó là một khoảng trời rất rộng mà ta hít thở từng ngày.
Ta được nuôi sống.”
― Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Đến một lúc nào đó bạn làm toán vì bạn thích chứ không phải để chứng tỏ một cái gì nữa.”
― Ngô Bảo Châu

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.”
― Luis Sepúlveda, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

“Như người Shuar vẫn nói: Ban ngày là người và rừng. Ban đêm, người là rừng. ”
― Luis Sepúlveda, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Sleep is God. Go worship.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”
― Jojo Moyes, One Plus One

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Sarah Kay

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
― Sarah Kay

“Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.”
― Sarah Kay

“Why was love such an addictive drug?
Why did loving someone cause such suffering?”
― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?

“Là où on s'aime, il ne fait jamais nuit.”
― Guillaume Musso

“Only one is a wanderer.
Two together are always going somewhere.”
― Guillaume Musso