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I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up. ↗


— Jhumoa Lahiri


#back #build #collection #feel #finished

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. ↗


— Jaron Lanier


#away #choose #elevated #every #every time

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. ↗


— Bruce Barton


#business #conquered #forged #into #jesus

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. ↗


— Warren G. Bennis


#accomplished #believe #great #great things #people

The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size have no place for private sentiment, either of the individual or of the nation. They are international languages like the binomial nomenclature of natural history. In dealing with the immense complexity of his social life man has not yet begun to apply inventiveness to the rational planning of ordinary language when describing different kinds of institutions and human behavior. The language of everyday life is clogged with sentiment, and the science of human nature has not advanced so far that we can describe individual sentiment in a clear way. So constructive thought about human society is hampered by the same conservatism as embarrassed the earlier naturalists. Nowadays people do not differ about what sort of animal is meant by Cimex or Pediculus, because these words are used only by people who use them in one way. They still can and often do mean a lot of different things when they say that a mattress is infested with bugs or lice. The study of a man's social life has not yet brought forth a Linnaeus. So an argument about the 'withering away of the State' may disclose a difference about the use of the dictionary when no real difference about the use of the policeman is involved. Curiously enough, people who are most sensible about the need for planning other social amenities in a reasonable way are often slow to see the need for creating a rational and international language. ↗


— Lancelot Hogben


#mathematics #life

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. ↗


— E. T. Bell


#mathematics #most #obvious #word

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them. ↗


— Roger Caras


#confounded #dogs #i #i am #indebted

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them. ↗


— Jose Bergaman


#forget #instead #merciful #more #perhaps

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them. ↗


— Lord Chesterfield


#mankind #must #them

There is an appropriate time to release somebody or to give them a break. ↗


— Gary Gilmore


#appropriate time #break #give #release #somebody






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