Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
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There is no armor against fate.
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The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.
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Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.
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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
