Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

William Thomson

Mots clés science common-sense math mathematics etherealization repulsive

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Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American custom of constantly smiling: "They are like chimpanzees," she said, in her bitter exclamatory voice. She grimaced, baring her teeth grotesquely. "Eee!" she said. "I smile at you! Eee! It is repulsive.

Dan Chaon

Mots clés humor strange customs foreign repulsive

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Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Douglas Wilson

Mots clés modesty attractiveness modest attractive repulsive immodesty art-form immodest repulsiveness

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