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Simon van der Meer

"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I would be made come to earth again, I would ask for the same mother again. If made to return 100 times to earth, I would request to be born through the same mother 100 times!"

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Amber Hurdle

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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Amber Hurdle

"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."

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Amber Hurdle

"They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

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Amber Hurdle

"Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents' foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

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Amber Hurdle

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

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Simon van der Meer
"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."

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Simon van der Meer
"Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education."

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Simon van der Meer
"My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators."

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Simon van der Meer
"Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset."

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Simon van der Meer
"My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family."

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Simon van der Meer
"At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE)."

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Simon van der Meer
"I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943."

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Simon van der Meer
"After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR."

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