"Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]"

-- Hermann Weyl

#Years Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Greek Quotes

“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.”
“Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.”
“Anything before youâ€™re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the worldâ€™s going to hell.”
“I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.”
“Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.”
“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”
“But she had dreamed of being his for too long. He had quite ruined her for a marriage of convenience. She wanted everything from him: his mind, his body, his name and, most of all, his heart.”
“I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote, marijuana, morphine and cocaine. I never know sadness, but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine. Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine.”

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