G. H. Hardy Quotes
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
