"It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50."

-- Jean Dieudonne

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“Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.”

Source : "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 11, 1880.
“So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.”
“You have the power to help people become winners.”
“Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.”

Source : Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.”
“I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.”
“You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.”
“I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.”

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