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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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You are all my reasons.
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A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.
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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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Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!
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People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.
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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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I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.
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A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius.
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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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his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness and not of the early attempts to treat it. The popular view that anti-psychotics were chemical straight jackets that suppressed clear thinking and voluntary activity seems not to be borne out in Nash's case. If anything, the only periods when he was relatively free of hallucinations..
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mental-illness
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In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who "fears love almost as much as he fears hatred" may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.21"
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Nash's lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the warring impulses of his paradoxical self, was now reduced to a caricature. Just as the overconcreteness of a dream is related to the intangible themes of waking life, Nash's search for a piece of paper, a carte d'identite, mirrored his former pursuit of mathematical insights. Yet the gulf between the two recog..
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James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, "Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable identity, and its absolute character can maneuver the self into an unyielding position. In this respect, it is the internal mirror of political authoritarianism, the tyrant inside the self ... an internal domination as deadly as any external tyranny."
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42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash was now sane. Oppenheimer replied, "That's something no one on earth can tell you, doctor."
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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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Der Herr Gott ist raffiniert aber Boshaft ist Er nicht,
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Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked social graces was warned that he or she was "going to wind up like the Phantom."10 Yet if a new student complained that having him around made him feel uncomfortable, he was immediately warned: "He was a better mathematician than you'll ever be!" --
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Para Dickens y Marx, la funcion de las empresas era controlar o explotar al trabajador. Para Mill, su funcion era enriquecer a los duenos. Para Marshall, la empresa no era una carcel, y dirigir una empresa no significaba controlar a los presos. Competir por los clientes (o los trabajadores) exigia algo mas que repeticion ciega. Las empresas estudiadas por Marshall habian tenido que evolucionar para sobrevivir.
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