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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
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"Poverty is being single."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
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"Poverty is spiritual halitosis."
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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
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"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
Sports
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
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"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
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"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
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"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
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