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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.