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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

- Bertrand Russell

He was taken away from his mother and brought up in a cold, austere home with little affection or comfort,

- Cynthia Lennon

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

- Jonathan Miller

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

- Ambrose Bierce

And the young people in the 1960`s identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.

- George Martin

I`m not an austere person.

- Paul Farmer

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

- Aimee Litka

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

- Ambrose Bierce