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"Ferdinand: Wherefore weep you? Miranda: At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."
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The Tempest"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wakd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wakd, I cried to dream again."
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a storm, the rest of the play is set on a remote island, where Prospero, a magician, lives with his daughter Miranda, and his two servants: Caliban, a savage monster figure, and Ariel, an airy spir
"Ferdinand: Wherefore weep you? Miranda: At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."
"I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows."
"My library Was dukedom large enough."
"Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me, From mine own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
"All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure; bet to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curld clouds. To thy strong bidding task Ariel, and all his quality."
"Ferdinand: Here ’s my hand. Miranda: And mine, with my heart in ’t."
"In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all."
"I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices."
"Sharon Tate was my best friend. Once, we were roommates. She introduced me to my husband. She was the godmother to my baby daughter who is named for her. In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone."
"Long time to see. (VS: Tapion)"
"Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants." Once in a discussion about the rapid growth of mathematics in modern times, von Neumann was heard to remark that whereas thirty years ago a mathematician could grasp all of mathematics, that is impossible today. Someone asked him: "What percentage of all mathematics might a person aspire to understand today?" Von Neumann went into one of his five-second thinking trances, and said: "About 28 percent."
"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their childrens minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are."