Edmund Landau Quotes
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
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Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.
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It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.
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If you get fired from your job, that’s outside your control, so you shouldn’t be personally invested in your job.
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Sometimes it could be the smallest thing that could topple over a whole life, and, in the end, destroy it.
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It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
