"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."

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Stephen Cole Kleene

#Jobs Quotes #Wisconsin Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.”
“This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.7, Harper Collins
“One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.”
“George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.”
“In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the time have a direct effect on the quality of life... and that quality of life is obviously very different between a kid who is growing up in a refugee camp and somebody who is living in Tel Aviv.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.”
“A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.”
“Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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