"Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems."

-- Carl Pomerance

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“I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.”
“Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.”

Source : Claude Fayette Bragdon (2005). “Architecture and Democracy”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.
“The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.”
“I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.”
“Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,”
“I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.”
“I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at.”
“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.”

Source : Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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