Sylvia Nasar Quotes

#1. A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

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#2. Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.

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#3. Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

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#4. I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

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#5. several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15

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#6. You are all my reasons.

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#7. Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p.

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#8. I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.

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#9. A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

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#10. It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.

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#11. RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.

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#12. Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill.

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#13. People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.

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#14. Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!

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