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• Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

  Dean Keith Simonton

  Creativity, Quality, Research

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• Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

  Serge Lang

  Hygiene, Doe, Lasts

  Serge Lang (2012). “The Beauty of Doing Mathematics: Three Public Dialogues”, p.19, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

  Josh Billings

  Titles, Would Be, Lost

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• The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Home, Elderly

  Pope Francis (2016). “Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home”, p.17, BookBaby

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• Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Evil, Darkness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.554, Рипол Классик

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• What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.

  Anna Brackett

  Knowledge, Learning, Knowing

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• If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Justice, Claims

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• Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind, and behold, all the mats and rubbish which had littered his garret become precious. Every trivial fact in his private biography becomes an illustration of this new principle, revisits the day, and delights all men by its piquancy and new charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Men, Illustration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1396, Delphi Classics

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• Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition supposedly emphasizing 'the finite existence of art'... The cleaner evidently had no time to question the relationship of his or her being to the rubbish bag, and reached the right conclusion.

  Semir Zeki

  Art, Bags, Exhibitions

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• You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.

  Oscar Romero

  Commitment, Cutting, Air

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• The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Vocabulary, Astrology, Psychology

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

  Jeff Beck

  Ducks, Want, London

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• People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

  Gordon Strachan

  Lying, Team, Drinking

  "How football's intimate details become drowned in drink" by Nicky Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2007.

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• I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

  Brian Froud

  Art, Way, Facts

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Mean, Thinking, Priorities

  "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I do still have dips of confidence or [can think] everything I do is rubbish.

  David Toop

  Thinking, Dip, Stills

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down.... Everything else is rubbish.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Enemy, Pilots, Way

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• The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

  Freeman Dyson

  Media, Trying, Disaster

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• Cocaine made me talk forever. The most nonsensical rubbish that you could ever think of.

  Elton John

  Thinking, Forever, Cocaine

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

  Dylan Moran

  Things To Do, Better Things To Do

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.

  Ai Weiwei

  Mean, Skills, Kind

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Views, Decision, Important

  "In conversation - Bernie Ecclestone and Nico Rosberg". Interview With Nico Rosberg, www.formula1.com. May 24, 2015.

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• The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Ivy, Effort

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

  David Bowie

  Past, Thinking, Europe

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Compare, Capability, Ifs

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