"Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him."

-- G. H. Hardy

#Silly Quotes #Creative Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that.”
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

Source : 1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).
“Worry divides the mind.”
“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...”
“I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.”
“I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe”
“The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.”
“I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.”

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