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" If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. "

Albert Einstein

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" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "

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" Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. "

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