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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

>> No.1521837

I've heard something like that before, but I have no idea who said it.

>> No.1521845

Warhammer 40k is stupid shit for immature manchildren with shitty taste in everything

>> No.1521850
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I just can't be fucked. The most complex mathematics I can do is probably shit like (x-2)(x+5)

U mad?

>> No.1521855

>>1521837
Heinlein's "From the notebooks of Lazarus Long" in "Time Enough for Love", irc.

>> No.1521867

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
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Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
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When the fox gnaws-smile!
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A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased-he hates all creative people equally.
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
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Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
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Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions.

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>>1521845

knows the origin of a random image and then thinks he's insulting other people who also know might know the origin of a random image

>> No.1521871

Heinlein had stupid views what men should be like because he was an overcompensating wannabe alpha bro piece of shit that invented the whole space marine thing because he wish he was one and yet has never seen combat.

>> No.1521876

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
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The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes bathe, and not make messes m the house.
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Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naïve, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty" "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter bow "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, coon a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

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1521877

Who is this girl some sort of Harley Susan Miya? I hate anime.

>> No.1521881

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow room is pleasanter-and much safer.
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must -- " designates something that need not be done. 'That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change clichés and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
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Rub her feet.
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If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.
Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
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Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs-sex especially. When they are growng up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes-but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

>> No.1521889

utilize chronic

I get the feeling this is low brow humour
it went SWOOSH right under my ballsack and tickled

you're welcome for the image

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>>1521877

>> No.1521894

.>>1521870
hey rita repulsa

>> No.1521911
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>>1521893
Nietzche atmosphere

>> No.1521949

>>1521828

Oh yeah, well I think that people who can 'cope' with mathematics is a freak of nature and is technically not human but some mutated control freak who is constantly trying find some "order" in this world because 'disorder' is does not compute, does not compute.

Who is the true human in the scenario-the one who satisfies his/her basic needs or the control-freak flesh robot who is constantly measuring things with his/her OCD ruler?

I'm voting for the former.

>> No.1522360

>>1521828
Isn't this a quote from Paul Erdos, the itinerant math genius who used coffee and uppers to think better?

>> No.1522402

>>1521828
>A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, coon a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Can't take anything else he says seriously.

>> No.1522418

>>1521828

How ironically irrational of you to claim this......

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>>1522402

>Can't take anything else he says seriously.

>> No.1522431

Oh, Robert A. Heinlein, you sibbly-wibbly you!

>> No.1522433

>>1521949
Rationalize your shortcomings to feel better, if you must.

>> No.1522461

Did anyone of you ever consider the idea that maybe, just maybe, Mathematics is neither the hardest field for everyone and nor the most important field for everyone.

>> No.1522478

>>1522420
I don't understand the meaning of the picture.

>> No.1522484

>>1522478

filename: repeat.jpg
features a line of bears repeating the same pose
>bears repeating

recaptcha: reproduce wiping

>> No.1522520

>>1522484
LOLOLOL

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

>> No.1522530

>>1522520

you goddamn well better see what i done there