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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'I don't seek power and do not run around.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?'

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