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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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