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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In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.
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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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Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.
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Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.
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My family's great and everybody's happy and healthy and my career is good. But personally, I had to sacrifice a lot in my own personal life. And I regret that.
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Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
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Projective geometry is all geometry.
