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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.


G. H. Hardy


#applied #distinctly #mainly #mathematical #mathematics

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.


Robert E. Howard


#business #cattle #cotton #i #live

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.


Kenneth Koch


#early #even #ever #friends #guess

I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.


Dalai Lama


#come #country #democratic #democratic country #generally

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.


Gary Numan


#aggressive #became #came #early #ever

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.


Michael Rostovtzeff


#confined #crises #generals #great #historical

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.


Aneurin Bevan


#could #fish #genius #island #made

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.


Ambrose Bierce


#commonly #consist #degree #found #high

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.


John Bright


#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.


Pat Buchanan


#breakfast #clinton #experience #foreign #foreign policy