"Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor."

-- Theodore Zeldin

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“I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.”
“Iâ€™m good when Iâ€™m alone. Iâ€™m comfortable when Iâ€™m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included.”
“What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.”
“I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.”
“The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.”
“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.”
“In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.”
“I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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