When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.
~ Timothy Snyder
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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University of Tsukuba
University of Tsukuba
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One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Hitotsubashi University
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Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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University of Osaka
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Institute of Science Tokyo
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The difference between people and ideas is … only superficial.
~ Richard Rorty
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Tohoku University
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You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
~ David Foster Wallace
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