"My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner.""

-- Daniel Goldston

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“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”
“The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.”
“The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.”
“The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.”
“Life is filled with meaning as soon as Jesus Christ enters into it.”
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
“All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.”
“From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.”

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