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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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"The Housekeeper and the Professor" Quotes

A brilliant mathematician forms an unlikely friendship with his housekeeper, despite his memory lasting only eighty minutes.

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Numbers are not just symbols, they are a kind of language that enables the dead to speak to us.

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The best thing about numbers is that they use a common language, regardless of who is using them.

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The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

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There's something hidden in every human heart.

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The magic of numbers is that they never change, no matter how much time passes.

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Numbers have life, they're not just symbols on paper.

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In baseball, numbers are everything.

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The power of numbers is never more evident than it is in the world of sports.

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The circle is a perfect figure, with no beginning and no end.

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The world of numbers was a bright, shining place, full of strange and beautiful surprises.

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