Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
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The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.
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Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
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Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
