"Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language."

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Alfred North Whitehead

#Math Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Language Quotes

“It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.333, Wordsworth Editions
“Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.”
“No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.”
“Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.”
“It's really helped a ton in the sense that we get to reach people who don't normally know our music. At least once a night at a show someone will come up to the merch table after the show and say they've never heard of me but they saw me on Troubadour, TX, and it reminds me that I'm not Elvis and anything I can do to get my name out there is beneficial in every way.”
“Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.”
“No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.”
“I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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