Georg Cantor Quotes
Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.
Quotes to Explore
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
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There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.
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We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.
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It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam was afraid.
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
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Racism is a part of a problem, a world problem, which has to be overcome.
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A star needs all the rest she can get.
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You never see a French person eating alone.
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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
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One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 the year of the Easter Rising. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.
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It's all about impressing people.
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One of the challenges of innovation is challenging a set model. A traditional way to manufacture footwear existed for hundreds of years. Now we have a whole new way.
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Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.
