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"VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country." – Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" (1948), p. 359.
"The chemist smiles at the childish efforts of alchemists but the mathematician finds the geometry of the Greeks and the arithmetic of the Hindoos as useful and admirable as any research of today." – Florian Cajori, "A History of Mathematics" (1893).
"Crowns have their compass—length of days their date— Triumphs their tomb—felicity, her fate— Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker." – William Shakespeare