Deracinate Quotes & Sayings

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension. — Marcus Aurelius

Edmund P. Clowney wrote, "The Bible does not present an art of prayer; it presents the God of prayer."129 We should not decide how to pray based on the experiences and feelings we want. Instead, we should do everything possible to behold our God as he is, and prayer will follow. The more clearly we grasp who God is, the more our prayer is shaped and determined accordingly. — Timothy Keller

There are three choices for a woman like me:
1) Be sad and lonely
2) Be the one who is cheated on
3) be the other woman — Jodi Picoult

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? — Anthony Doerr

I'm the last one who would do self-analysis. — Werner Herzog

Maybe it's time to let him go. Find someone who truly appreciates you. That person is out there."
I wanted to believe her. I really did. — Summer Felix

It's specifically this Z = 2^(Aleph0) that he couldn't prove. Ever. Despite years of unimaginable doodling. Whether it's what unhinged him or not is an unanswerable question, but it is true that his inability to prove the C.H. caused Cantor pain for the rest of his life; he considered it his great failure. This too, in hindsight, is sad, because professional mathematicians now know exactly why G. Cantor could neither prove nor disprove the C.H. The reasons are deep and important and go corrosively to the root of axiomatic set theory's formal Consistency, in rather the same way that K. Godel's Incompleteness proofs deracinate all math as a formal system. Once again, the issues here can be only sketched or synopsized (although this time Godel is directly involved, so the whole thing is probably fleshed out in the Great Discoveries Series' Godel booklet). — David Foster Wallace

Power is neither male or female. — Michael Crichton