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The most important things in life.., whether you're a football player or a virus, is to deter attackers and run away when necessary.

— Michael Atiyah The Role of Beauty in Mathematics (2015)

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Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.

Poncelet's closure theorem for triangles and circles.

3 Regular Heptagons formed by continuously joining 1 (blue), 2 (red), or 3 (black) points apart, with respective circumscribed circles.

Only two people in the universe knew what an electron was, you and God, and you've forgotten!

Sir Michael Atiyah, What is a Spinor? (2013)

4 dimensions is... very important, even if you don't believe in it.

Geometry in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions (2011)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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