One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself.
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.
My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.
I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.
I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.
I think fate is massive, and it's never really had its place among forces we respect as having control over us.
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me. . . and plenty of other people. . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.
Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.