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"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day."
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"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
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"Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?"
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"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."
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"When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not."
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"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."
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"My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional."
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"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"
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"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
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"At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years."
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"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
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"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."
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"I was particularly good at math and science."
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"I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."
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"I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science."
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"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."
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"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires."
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"I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain."
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