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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"I started skating when I was six years old."
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"There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors."
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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"Everybody is doing the same old thing."
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"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
Energy
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
Mother
"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
Chess
"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
Travel
"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
Physics
"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
Attention
"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later."
Wife
"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."
Country
"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
Chess
"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
Work
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