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"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research."
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"I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health."
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"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."
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"I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time."
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"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research."
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"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."
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"I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house."
Memories
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."
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"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
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"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
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"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
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"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
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"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
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"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."
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