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"My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent."
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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"So to make those checks better, I used to steal lollipops and sell them at school - but I got caught."
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"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
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"Most every dental school has discount dental services."
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"I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly."
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"I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating."
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"I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins."
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"You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit."
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"I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him."
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"I have always loved going to school."
School

"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
Decision

"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
Home

"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
Students

"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
Mother

"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
Attention

"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
Growing up

"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
Education

"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life

"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
Experience
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