"The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that."

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Robert Goolrick

#Sweet Quotes #Bitter Quotes

“A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.”
“I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.”
“I have a writerâ€™s concentration: intense, but flickering.”
“I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.”

Source : "The new cool cat on the block" by Dino Scatena, www.smh.com.au. April 16, 2004.
“Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.”
“Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.”
“I think art, at best, holds up a mirror to humanity.”
“A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.”

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