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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."

"If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable."

"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."

"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."

"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."

"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."

"I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge."
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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."

"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."

"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future."

"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."

"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."

"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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