Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

"Mathematics is not a spectator sport."

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The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.