Eric Maskin Quotes
Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
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When I decided to stop using quotation marks, it presented technical challenges: you have to conceive of dialogue differently and structure it differently for this to work. So I had a new problem, which makes writing interesting again.
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Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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Though it lash the shallows that line the beach, Afar from the great sea-deeps,There is never a storm whose might can reach Where the vast leviathan sleeps.Like a mighty thought in a mighty mind In the clear cold depths he swims;Whilst above him the pettiest form of his kind With a dash o'er the surface skims.
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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
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Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.
