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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. ↗

— Michael Wilding

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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. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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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. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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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. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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