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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."
Class
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
Home
"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
Being
"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."
Mathematics
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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