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"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."
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"My parents didn't really know one another."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
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"I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents."
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"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal."
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"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
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"Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California."
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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
"Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business."
Business
"It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years."
War
"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
"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
Parents
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel
"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
"Natures' curriculum cannot be changed."
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