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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I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.
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I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.
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My heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.
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Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.
