"He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing."

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James Russell Lowell

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“Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team.”
“What weâ€™ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it weâ€™ll sink.”
“Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.”
“Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.”
“The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.”

Source : James Joll (1960). “Intellectuals in politics: three biographical essays”
“Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.”
“The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.”

Source : "Adjusting Our Work-Life Balance in the Internet Economy" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2010.
“I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.”

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