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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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"In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
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"I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."
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"As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist."
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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
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
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"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
"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
"This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted."
Work
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"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
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
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