#cian

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win. ↗

— Paul Begala

#guy #how #like #me #meet

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

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. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#brief #dozen #fifty #half #indeed

You're a constant student, as a musician. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#musician #student #you

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. ↗

— Tony Benn

#house #lords #outer #politicians #retired

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. ↗

— Silvio Berlusconi

#between #entrepreneur #experience #link #one word

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

I am not a professional politician. ↗

— John Bolton

#i #i am #politician #professional

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. ↗

— John Bolton

#generals #last #like #politicians #tendency

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years. ↗

— Charles Hermite

#enough #keep #left #mathematicians #them