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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
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Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.
James W. Black
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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker
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I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn't consume much time at all.
Timothy Ferriss
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
Woodrow Wilson
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My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.
Eleanor Catton
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In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.
Ruth Glick
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Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.
Joyce Carol Oates
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One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.
Jacques Monod
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
Ben Bernanke
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.
Alain de Botton
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When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.


Raymond Chandler
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I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least that's the line I feed my parents when they start wondering where all that good money went.
Wentworth Miller
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As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
Wendy Kopp
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Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.


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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.


Harry Mathews
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This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.
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Because in a split second, it's gone.


Ayrton Senna
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
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