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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
William Rowan Hamilton
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“I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.”
“Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.”
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