"I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate."

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Source : "Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation". Book by Michael Harris, 2015.

David Mumford

#Pride Quotes #Math Quotes #People Quotes

“I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.”

Source : "Ronnie". Book by Ronnie Drew, September 3, 2009.
“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.110, Scholastic Inc.
“There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”
“Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.”

Source : Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage
“The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.”
“I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.”
“I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.”
“History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.”

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