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The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

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I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

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It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

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Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.

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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

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I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

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I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Mathematician

Born: June 13th, 1928

Died: May 23rd, 2015

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