"[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant."

-- G. H. Hardy

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“Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life.”
“When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world is because we want to buy cheap stuff. If Donald Trump were to change trade laws, we couldn't buy the cheap stuff or in our Wal-Marts, they would cost a whole lot more.”
“We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.”
“I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.”
“If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.”

Source : ""It's Not Bullshit To Express Yourself The Way You Want": Cher And Zendaya In Conversation". Interview with Abby Schreiber, www.papermag.com. February 17, 2016.
“All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.”
“We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.”

Source : "The Search for Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.psywarrior.com.
“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.”

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