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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's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."

"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."

"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."

"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."

"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."

"This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him."

"My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose."
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"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."

"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."

"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."

"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."

"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."

"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."

"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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