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"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"Thought is the parent of the deed."
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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
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"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
Infinity
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
Mathematics
"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."
Achievement
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
Mathematics
"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years."
Time
"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
Mind
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
Mathematicians
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