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— Emily James Smith Putnam"The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class."
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It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.
— Peter L. Berger
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