Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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