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"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
First
"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."
Family
"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."
Belief
"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
Ideas
"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
Logic
"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
Time
"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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