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"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."
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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."
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"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president."
Time
"I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career."
Career
"I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions."
Management
"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators."
Time
"I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents."
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"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."
Job
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."
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"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."
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"I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature."
Nature
"A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art."
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