Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quotes
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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Teamwork is a strategic decision.
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Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
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My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
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Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.
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Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].
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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.
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Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
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I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.
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Dear reader, with this book I want to do for you what my teachers and mentors did for me: unlock the power and beauty of mathematics, and enable you to enter this magical world the way I did, even if you are the sort of person who has never used the words “math” and “love” in the same.
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Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.
