"Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!"

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Source : Personal Letter, 1885.

Georg Cantor

#Years Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Demand Quotes

“Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.”
“The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.”
“People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.”
“Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.”

Source : "Fighting to Fulfill 'The Dream'” by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.
“things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.”

Source : Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth
“What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.”
“If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.”
“I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.”

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