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"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."
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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

"Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment."

"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

"Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been."

"Everywhere, I have travel to, I felt loved."
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"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."

"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."

"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."

"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."

"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."

"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."

"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."
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