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"As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"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."

"My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months."

"At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends."

"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."

"Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order."

"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."

"And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance."
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