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"For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal."
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"We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching."
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"There is no teaching to compare with example."
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"I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track."
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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
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"An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign."
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"I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example."
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"Be an example, be kind and be simple."
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"I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example."
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"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."
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"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
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"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
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"I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two."
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"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."
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"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
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"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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