"Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce."

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Source : "Fractals: Form, Chance and Dimension". Book by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1977.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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“The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.”
“What feels best is how I no longer hurt.”
“Probably after Vietnam and Watergate, there was an increasing distrust of institutions, so that Jesus was still in, but the institutional church was no longer an attraction. So, I think that the dropping of the denominational label is to become more generic, less of a threat, less of a reminder of negative stereotypes if you've walked away from church.”
“The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.”

Source : "The Murderer". Short story by Ray Bradbury, 1953.
“If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.”
“I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say, I'll knowk you out', and I was eventually expelled for fighting.”
“Forgiveness is the greatest weapon that God has given us.”
“I started in a business background, but then it was like, 'you know, I can't do math,' so I changed it to a liberal arts degree and got my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and it made sense.”

Source : TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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