"No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job."

-- James Fallows

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“All -isms end up in schisms.”
“You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.”
“You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little.”
“Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.”
“In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.”

Source : Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: 2002-2013”, p.267, Oxford University Press, USA
“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”
“Self-care is important for all of us, especially because we're in what amounts to a nationally traumatic phase. I think part of it is to remember that there is more to opposition than opposition. In other words, it's not just about recognizing and cataloguing and publicizing all the things that are going wrong; it's about modeling and celebrating the alternative.”
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”

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