Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
Quotes to Explore
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.
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My son was born right here in Florida; he went to public schools and went to the University of Florida and surprised me - I'll tell you that - when he went into the service.
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In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
