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"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."
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"Use your knowledge and physical strength. You have the opportunity today, start living for Him."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"You can believe in Christ and live a Christ like life."
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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."
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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."
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"Everyone should have a philosophy for living better."
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"We can live out our lives, and in the end realize that we never really 'lived' a day in our lives."
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"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it 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

"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

"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

"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
Mind

"There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today."
Today

"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."
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"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

"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
Life

"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."
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