"The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation."

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Source : G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

G. H. Hardy

#Occupation Quotes #Study Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.”
“Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.”

Source : Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.114
“But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.”

Source : Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods”, p.21
“They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.”
“If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.”

Source : Song: Walk With The Wise, Album: The Great Adventure
“I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.”
“There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.”
“Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.”

Source : "After Lehman Brothers' fall, we must look beyond the banks" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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