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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it long

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. – Rowan D. Williams

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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. – Paul D. Boyer

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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. – Sallust

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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. – Murray Kempton

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