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"As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism."
Poverty
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
Home
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
Being
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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."
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Personal Development
"The world system is employment."
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Personal Development
"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed."
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Personal Development
"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."
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"Do not be weary to make money."
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Personal Development
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"
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Personal Development
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