"From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward."

Age, Education, Business

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"From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward."

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

John W. Gardner, American Educator

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"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."

Booth Tarkington, American Novelist

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"Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S."

Time

"I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943."

College

"I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics."

Being

"I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all."

Friendship

"Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period."

Children

"Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge."

Years

"On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier."

Problems

"I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years."

Past

"In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects."

Age

"Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children."

Love