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"At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends."
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"So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students."

"My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World."

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"People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms."
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