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The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

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Henri Poincare
Age: 58 †
Born: 1854
Born: April 29
Died: 1912
Died: July 17
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.
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Ideas rose in clouds I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
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