"In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven……" — Eric Temple Bell

"In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils.""

— Eric Temple Bell

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Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years. — Charles Hermite
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have… — Park Chan-wook
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We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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