Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.
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Books are humanity in print.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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There was this darkness about being from New Jersey.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
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God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.
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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
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Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
