"I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn."

-- Isadore Singer

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“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.”
“Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know,”
“We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.”
“You may not be responsible for getting knocked down. But you're certainly responsible for getting back up.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.”
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
“In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.”
“The thrill of coming home has never changed.”

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