Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
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The world needs some help.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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I'll always be a member of System of a Down. That will never change.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddamn rules.
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I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'
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One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.
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There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
