You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. -UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher-
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -C. S. Lewis-

The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it is cheaper to do this than to institutionalize all those people.

A file that big?…It might be very useful…But now it is gone.

I advise my students to listen carefully the moment they decide to take no more mathematics courses. They might be able to hear the sound of closing doors. -James Caballero-

God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on the relations between physical laws and laws of numbers. -James Clerk Maxwell-

Opportunity only knocks once. Temptation leans on the doorbell.

It’s extremely difficult to second guess the American Navy, because the Ame= ricans rarely read their doctrine, and don=E2=80=99t feel compelled to foll= ow it when they do. -Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, Soviet Union-

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -Abraham Lincoln-