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I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time... all dedicated to the most beautiful of the arts and sciences.
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The problem with improv is that you're letting an idiot tell you what to do.
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I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one†in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
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You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
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Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
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The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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None of the more apparently expressive elements involved in my work - color, form, application, and so on - are important or instructive in themselves. They're all just a means of entry, markers pointing beyond themselves towards something broader and less controlled.
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I'd rather teach peace.
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For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.