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If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Paul Lockhart , in A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
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All blood runs red.

Phrase painted on the side of the plane flown by Eugene Bullard in World War I the first black comba
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