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"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."
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"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty."

"Decisions are the privilege we've been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly."

"He was terrified he was making the wrong choice. He relied on his instincts in his work but now he didn't dare trust them. The wound of betrayal still burned raw in his chest and another cut might be the killing blow.But it was the end of the world and there may be no more second chances."

"Everything with no exception is a choice. The choice can be either conscious or unconscious depending on the level of self-awareness. The more self-aware we become, the faster we can make our unconscious choices known to us."

"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be."

"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."
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"It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams."

"More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding."

"The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds."

"Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level."

"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."

"Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures."

"The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal."

"A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement."

"The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department."
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