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I will not buy you gentlemen beer.

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Is my roommate a dick?

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That Isaac Newton fellow was right.

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Man is capable of as much atrocity as he has imagination.

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John, you watched a mugging. That’s weird.

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I never said the vector fields were rational functions…Your solution is elegant, though ultimately incorrect.

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How do you know?

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The prodigal roommate revealed. Saw my name on the lecture slate. YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH!

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Conviction, it turns out, is a luxury of those on the sidelines, Mr. Nash.

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Hey, look, you made the cover of Fortune…again…

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So what’s your story? You the poor kid that never got to go to Exeter or Andover?

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God must be a painter. Why else would we have so many colors?

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I don’t, I just believe it.

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I’m sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.

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Alicia, John’s always been a little…weird.

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I don’t exactly know what I am required to say in order for you to have intercourse with me. But could we assume that I said all that. I mean essentially we are talking about fluid exchange right? So could we go just straight to the sex.

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You know it’s classified, Alicia.

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Does that seem unfair to anybody?

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You are the only reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.

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How do you know for sure?

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Mathematics…mathematics is never going to lead you to higher truth and you know why? Because it’s boring!

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Are you gonna slap me now?

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In competitive behavior someone always loses.

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Despite my privileged upbringing, I’m actually quite well-balanced. I have a chip on both shoulders.

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Find a truly original idea. It is the only way I will ever distinguish myself. It is the only way I will ever matter.

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Cowards, all of you. Come on. Whoever wins, Sol does his laundry for the semester.

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I assume you’ve gotten quite used to miscalculation. I read your pre-prints. Both of ‘em. One on Nazi scientists and the other one on, uh…non-linear equations, and I’m extremely confident that there’s not one seminal or innovative idea in either one of them…Enjoy your punch.

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This class will be a waste of your – and what is infinitely worse – my time.

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Can we open up the window, Professor? It’s hot in here.

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Your comfort comes second to my ability to hear my own voice.

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Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?

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There’s no point in being nuts if you can’t have a little fun.

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You haven’t seen it.

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My name is Rosen, Dr. Rosen. I am a psychiatrist.

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Nothing’s ever for sure, John. That’s the only sure thing I do know.

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You ever…just know something, Dr. Nash?

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I once tried to count them all. I, actually, made it to 4,348.

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I arrived last night. Right in time for English Department cocktails. The cock was mine. The tail belonged to a lovely young thing with a passion for D.H. Lawrence.

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I don’t know. I want to see what John’s been working on.

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They are my past. Everyone is haunted by their past.

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You wanted to see if I was crazy and would screw everything up if I actually won.

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I bet you’re very popular with the girls.

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Well, Martin Hansen. It is Martin, isn’t it?

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What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career – the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found. I am only here tonight because of you

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I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!

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He was on to something.

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Classes will dull your mind.

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When did you last eat?

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I was wondering Professor Nash, if I could take you to dinner?

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Nash. Who’s winning – you, or you?

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I didn’t think you were listening…

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And then, on the way home, Charles was there again. Sometimes I miss talking to him. Maybe Rosen is right. Maybe I have to think about going back to the hospital.

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Why not? Why can’t I?

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See if I derive an equilibrium where prevalence is a non-singular event where nobody loses, can you imagine the effect that would have on conflict scenarios, arm negotiations…

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Maybe try again tomorrow.

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It looks like you won after all.

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No, not at all.

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You once said that God must be a painter because he gave us so many colors.

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When’s the last time you ate? You know…food.

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It’s called life John. Activities available; just add meaning.

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Well, my niece knows that, John, and she’s about this high.

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Who are you talking to? Tell me who you see.

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No. I don’t have that one. My savior complex takes a different form.

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Oh, we’re not here for beer, my friend.

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So how about it, Nash? You scared?

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I know because all the data indicates it’s infinite.

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How big is the universe?

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It’s the same with love I guess.

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But it hasn’t been proven yet.

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I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.

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What did the doctor say?

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How do you say Charles Herman in Russian?

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It’s not my problem and it’s not your problem. It’s their problem. Your answers are not on that wall. They’re out there, where you’ve been working.

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Mathematicians won the war. Mathematicians broke the Japanese codes…and built the A-bomb. Mathematicians…like you. The stated goal of the Soviets is global Communism. In medicine or economics, in technology or space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph, we need results. Publishable, applicable results. Now who among you will be the next Morse? The next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom, and discovery? Today, we bequeath America’s future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.

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Come back a man!

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You didn’t even look!

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Because your mind is where the problem is in the first place!

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Listen. If we can’t break the ice, how ’bout we drown it?

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What you don’t know…is if I want to marry you.

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I’ve gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they’ve kind of given up on me. I think that’s what it’s like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we’ve got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive.

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Why yes, John, it is.

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Well, she’s young, John. That’s how they come.

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No. They were wrong, John. No one wins.

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This is a group playing touch football. This is a flock of pigeons fighting over bread crumbs. And this is a woman chasing a man who stole her purse.

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Her husband was too drunk to know he was too drunk to drive.

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If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a single one of us is going to get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because no on likes to be second choice. But what if none of us goes for the blonde? We won’t get in each other’s way and we won’t insult the other girls. It’s the only way to win. It’s the only way we all get laid.

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You can’t reason your way out of this!

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Alicia, you know you can’t go in his office.

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The prodigal roommate arrives.

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Terrified…mortified…petrified…stupefied…by you.

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Good morning, eager young minds

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I find you attractive. Your aggressive moves toward me…indicate that you feel the same way. But still, ritual requires that we continue with a number of platonic activities…before we have sex. I am proceeding with these activities, but in point of actual fact, all I really want to do is have intercourse with you as soon as possible.

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The problem you left on the board, I solved it.

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There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

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She never gets old! Marcee can’t be real; she never gets old!

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I’ve made the most important discovery of my life. It’s only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found. I’m only here tonight because of you. You are the only reason I am…you are all my reasons.

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I need to believe, that something extraordinary is possible.

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Fortune favors the brave!

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Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

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Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data.

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When did you last eat? You know, food.

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You do eat don’t you?

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You have no respect for cognitive reverie, you know that?

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You want to know what’s real? This…

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Yes. But pizza – now, pizza I have enormous respect for. And of course beer.

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…this is real.

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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

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You are exceptionally odd.

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