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E. T. Bell Quotes

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: February 7, 1883 - December 21, 1960

Topics

Art Mathematics Fitness Past Feeling

Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.

Lying Social Our Creatures

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

Personality Group Worst Narcissism

If you see somebody dressing like me, you know they're purposely trying to dress like me because I dress like nothing.

Ski Mask the Slump God

Dress Me Trying You Know Nothing

I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really cool. Back then, we didn't have all the video games and all that stuff. We just had each other, and we played on the street.

Tracy Spiridakos

Memories Cool Growing Up Chaos Trees

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

Stand Comedy You Drama Serious Will

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

Change Responsibility Money Energy

Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Family Change World Climate Change

I'm kind of a closet redneck.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Kind Redneck Closet

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

Living Comfortable Beyond Earning

I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.

Work Possible Classroom Ball Much

I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.

Best Ocean World Story End Short

I don't have many walls that I put up.

Walls Up Many Put

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