"It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear."

-- E. M. Forster

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“My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.”
“I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry-Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."”

Source : The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 91, No. 9, (p. 594), November 1984.
“I don't talk about my private life.”

Source : "Shining Knightley". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. July 17, 2006.
“I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.”
“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.”
“I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.”
“My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango.”
“When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.”

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