"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."

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Source : Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”

Eric Temple Bell

#Silly Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Vices Quotes

“No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.”
“Digital might capture the dynamics of what I heard before it went to tape a bit more accurately, but on the other hand, when we'd switch from listening to the digital version to the analog, the change was so profound - the music would suddenly go three-dimensional, and it felt much more engaging.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.”
“Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”

Source : "The Greatest Human-Animal Relationships in Cinema" by Tony Hinds, thefilmstage.com. June 23, 2016.
“I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.”
“If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.”
“To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each other, saying 'yes' and 'no'.”
“There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.”

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