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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
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"My parents didn't really know one another."
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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
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"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange."
Work
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel
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