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I have great difficulty just letting my yes be 'yes' and my no be 'no.'
Life is so rich with complexity that unqualified simplifications seem
to do it injustice.
Standard Greeting: "How goes
the war?"
Standard Reponse to Telemarketters: "Please
put us on the 'DON'T CALL' list, as it is our personal policy not to accept
telephone solicitation."
"If you're nothing but a daydreamer, at least be a skillful daydreamer:
then maybe your dreams can be realized." {television
interview, WXIX-TV19, 1994}
"Basic intelligence allows us to discern differences, but higher intelligence
allows us to discern just which differences make no pertinent difference."
{from "Goldbach's conjecture: from visions to
hard proof"}
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