E. T. Bell Quotes
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.
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Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.
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Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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I like to see the positive. I went to Madrid when I was 18 and did a TV show there. Really, my first job was in Madrid and I was on my own. I think it teaches you how to be independent and survive on your own and not really need anyone, although I definitely needed help in Madrid. It was kind of a disaster. I ended up living with nuns, but that's a whole other story.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.