Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
Quotes to Explore
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
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For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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No matter if we're in a contentious situation or simply engaging in an everyday interaction, we should aspire to have the strength to be kind always. If each of us shared this aspiration, we'd all be better off.
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Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.
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Getting to wear beautiful fashion is the most fun part of the job that has nothing to do with the job.
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What really grabs me about living in Tucson is the color beige.
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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
