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"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems."
Health
"In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement."
Act
"My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop."
Mom
"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible."
Father
"My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary."
Goal
"Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt."
Camping
"The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm."
Enthusiasm
"Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary."
Wife
"It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science."
Science
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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Personal Development
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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Personal Development
"I think it's a lame excuse for a lot of these rappers to say they only call girls bitches or hos because they act like that. It doesn't make them right."
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Personal Development
"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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Personal Development
"Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone."
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"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts."
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"And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America."
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"The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects."
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