"A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself"."

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Source : John Edensor Littlewood (1953). “A mathematicians's miscellany”

John Edensor Littlewood

#Learning Quotes #Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.”
“Love does not imply pacifism.”
“I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.”
“I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.”
“Iâ€™d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.”
“I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.”
“Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.”

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