Arthur Cayley Quotes
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
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Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.
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National defense through war always involves some degree of national defeat. This paradox has been with us from the very beginning of our republic. Militarization in defense of freedom reduces the freedom of the defenders. There is a fundamental inconsistency between war and freedom.
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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...the joy of winning the World Cup cannot be compared with any amount of money
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The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
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When freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.
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He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.
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I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
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In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
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Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.
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Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
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Projective geometry is all geometry.
