"I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Caring Quotes #Care Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.”
“Itâ€™s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.”
“Let's do it right. This is for the ages.”

Source : 1978 Quoted byJCarter Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, in theWashington Post, 27 Aug1995. On his design for the gallery's East Building which was soaring to an unbudgeted cost of $94.4m.
“No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project”
“Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.”
“The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.”
“My accomplishments are endless.”
“I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.”

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