#han

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#away #fear #hope #more #reason

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#contain #demonstration #greater #i #impossible

Ignorance is never better than knowledge. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

#ignorance #knowledge #never #than

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#exhibited #fought #higher #individual #perhaps

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: "fair," leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#change #coming #democratic #elected #fair

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#circumstances #control #you #your

I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#bruce #bruce lee #chan #first #i

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#alert #business #business community #certain #change

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#compose #easier #form #just #manual

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#change #come #enough #events #foreseen