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"We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself."
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"I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children."
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"In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College."
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"In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John."
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"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
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"I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939."
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"In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy."
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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"
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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky."
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"I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law."
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"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."
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"I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College."
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"A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House."
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"I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't."
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"That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size."
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"That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was wantin to know, at the college, how I got started playin and how do I do everything - you know, all that."
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