"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."
"No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you."
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Source: Barry Mazur (2004). “Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)”, p.138, Macmillan
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