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• I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Math, Trying, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Writing, Heart, World

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “On The Wealth of Nations: A Book that Shook the World”, p.85, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Discipline, Imagination

  Sula (1973)

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• In our travels, we have come across many equations--math for understanding the universe, for making music, for mapping stars, and also for tipping, which is important. Here is our favorite equation: Us plus Them equals All of Us. It is very simple math. Try it sometime. You probably won’t even need a pencil.

  Libba Bray

  Stars, Math, Simple

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.428, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• It’s all too easy to turn the fight of faith into sanctification-by-checklist. Take care of a few bad habits, develop a couple good ones, and you’re set. But a moral checklist doesn’t take into consideration the idols of the hearts. It may not even have the gospel as part of the equation. And inevitably, checklist spirituality is highly selective. So you end up feeling successful at sanctification because you stayed away from drugs, lost weight, served at the soup kitchen, and renounced Styrofoam. But you’ve ignored gentleness, humility, joy, and sexual purity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Couple, Heart, Humility

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• Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.

  Luce Irigaray

  Light, Nuclear, Use

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• Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.

  Viola Spolin

  Moving, Play, Wish

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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• And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

  Vikram Seth

  Ink, Green, Red

  Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.171, Penguin Books India

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• That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.

  Ruby Dee

  Inspirational, Thinking, Differences

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• The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Book, Bad Day

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• If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Numbers, Pyramids, Long

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Cat, Animal, Men

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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• I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.

  Ayn Rand

  Love You, Pride, Expression

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2002, Penguin

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• I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Giving, May

  Carl Gustav Jung (1959). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Self, Self Respect, Easy

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.59, Bantam

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• The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.

  Joe Hill

  Soul, Devil, Would Be

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• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  Madeleine Albright

  People, Liberty, Safe

  "Madeleine Albright: The road forward". CNN.com chat room, edition.cnn.com. September 18, 2001.

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• The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Results, Units, Persons

  James Clerk Maxwell (2002). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:”, p.518, Cambridge University Press

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• Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

  Paul Russo

  Karma, Blessing, Energy

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• I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

  Jack Shadbolt

  Artist, Giving, Style

  Jack Shadbolt (1968). “In search of form”

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• The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Hurt, Looks, Figures

  Source: collider.com

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• So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Fundamentals, Physics

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

  Chris Abani

  Long, Variables, Oppression

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.126, Penguin

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• I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

  Courtney Love

  Sisterhood, Men, Fields

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

  Nevil Shute

  Design, Helping, Aeroplanes

  Nevil Shute (2010). “Stephen Morris”, p.36, Random House

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