"A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press."

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Source : Note in the appendix of "Grundlagen der Arithmetik" (Vol. 2), after Frege had received a letter of Bertrand Russell in which Russell had explained his discovery of, what is now known as, Russell's paradox, 1903.

Gottlob Frege

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“The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed”
“I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.”

Source : "Shaun Cassidy Creator Of American Gothic". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. December 19, 2005.
“Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.”
“I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.”

Source : "Erland Josephson obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.
“I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.”
“In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.”
“Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.”

Source : Charles Derber (2015). “Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States”, p.107, Routledge
“People have had certain Âassumptions in the past about ÂConservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively Âreduce.”

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