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«To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.»
Author: Ivars Peterson
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
borders, concepts, dense, denser, Equations, incomprehensible, indecipherable, landscapes, outsider, outsiders, protected, technical, territory, thicket, thickets
«It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
for the most part, intellectuals, ironic, outsider, outsiders, Political history, scapegoat, scapegoats
«Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.»
Author: Stephen Vizinczey
| Keywords:
alcoholic, alcoholics, engaged, justify, outsider, outsiders, portray, portrayed, portraying, sympathetically
«I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.»
«What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart»
Author: Learned Hand
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employee, manifestation, outsider, outsiders, presentation, presentations, thwart, vigorous
«It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Art,
Life,
Madness
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all right, artists, completely, crazy, ill, immerse, immersing, mentally ill, mildly, only too, outsider, outsiders, put right, put to work, remain, right to work
«It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations /past and present /are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anxieties, hungers, incomprehensible, millennia, outsider, outsiders, remained, The Millennium, timeless
«You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.»
«In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
agencies, bigotry, brutish, cultist, government agencies, incarnate, incarnated, outsider, outsiders, psychiatrists, recapitulate, self-righteous, self government, The Story, unsightly, word for word
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