Paul Erdos Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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I'm such a huge 'Arrested Development' fan.
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Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
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Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
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I see the cure is not worth the pain.
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Beginnings play their prized part in every finished human accomplishment, for beginnings mean the birth of added progress.
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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
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Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
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“I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and also—I am so gratified to report—they sometimes check in with one another. Correspondences have sprung up and friendships have started to form beyond my influence. Family has begun to take on a transitive property as well.”
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The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
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Property is a nuisance.
