"For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift."

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Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

G. H. Hardy

#Purpose Quotes #Serious Quotes #Minors Quotes

“I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.”
“Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.136, Penguin
“I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.”
“The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.”
“Americans will not allow any Islamic regime to reach the position of governance except if it is an accomplice to the Americans, just like what is happening right now in Iraq.”
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”
“Willow: Hey, clothes. Tara: Better not get used to 'em.”
“To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry.”

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