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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
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"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
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"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."
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"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."
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"This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime."
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"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies."
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"The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier."
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"Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton."
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"Spain is not a racist country."
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"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."
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"My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student."
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"The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research."
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"While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time."
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"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."
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"I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool."
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"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System."
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"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison."
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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France."
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"Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer."
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