"I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value."

-- G. H. Hardy

#Escaping Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Differences Quotes

“At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.”
“Sometimes I think to myself, what should James Franco say next? And then it comes to me. Boobs.”
“The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.”
“there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?”
“People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.”
“I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.”

Source : "One-On-One With Bob Cousy". Interview with Clark Booth, www.goholycross.com. December 19, 2008.
“I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.”

Source : "Julianne Hough Dishes on the Men in Her Life: Kevin, Tom & Ryan" by Erin Hill, parade.com. February 1, 2012.
“Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.”

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