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"Note to self: interesting toy example given on page 2 to bear in mind, $L = (\dot{x}-\dot{y})^2$." — Apr 22, 2014 08:07AM
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"A strange amalgam of the author's journal entries, interspersed with letters, and post-factum commentaries." — Dec 18, 2014 09:43AM
"A strange amalgam of the author's journal entries, interspersed with letters, and post-factum commentaries." — Dec 18, 2014 09:43AM
“A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.”
― Summer Moonshine
― Summer Moonshine
“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”
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“It is true of course, that I have a will of iron, but it can be switched off if the circumstances seem to demand it.”
― Jeeves in the Morning
― Jeeves in the Morning
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