Shakuntala Devi Quotes
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system in Euclidean geometry by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment during the Renaissance. In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.
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I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
