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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

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