"There's an element of desperation in the insistence of the graduate student's respect for knowledge — as opposed to wisdom."

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“Stanely Kunitz on his friend Theodore Roethke”

“In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.”

“There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when it becomes excessively bald, wrenched.”

“Being, not doing, is my first joy.”

“You can't make poetry simply by avoiding clichés.”

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"We may predict that the science of which we try to be the humble and devoted servants will in the future life of the nations be an important factor in eliminating maladjustments between fundamental ec…"

— Ragnar Frisch

Economics1895–1973

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"Such translation is possible via an intermediate Greek translation, or simply for someone with a knowledge of Greek, where the word πόλεμος carries a dual connotation of both dialectic and war . Compa…"

— Leon Trotsky

Politics1879–1940

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"To infer the existence of an intelligent cause from the teeming evidences of surrounding design, to rise to the conception of a moral Governor of the world, from the study of the constitution and the …"

— George Boole

Mathematics1815–1864

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