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"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
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"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
"Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens."
"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
"I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular."
"I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound."
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed."
"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."
"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."
"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills."
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
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