"My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country"

-- Salmon P. Chase

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“Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.”
“Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.”

Source : Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag
“The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls.”
“The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.”
“I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.”

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“I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!”
“The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.”
“Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.”

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