"If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics."

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Source : Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

Eric Temple Bell

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.”
“And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.”
“One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.”
“The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.”
“Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.”

Source : "Justice". Introduction to the book edited by Alan Ryan, 1993.
“President Obama Tastes the Bitter Fruit of Appeasement...of Israel, not Iran”
“Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.”
“A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.”

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