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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."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
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"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."
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"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
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"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
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"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."
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"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."
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"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
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"Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!"
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"Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?"
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"There are endless opportunities in life."
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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."
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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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"And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance."
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"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
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"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."
Age

"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
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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."
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"First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes."
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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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"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."
Life
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