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"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves."
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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
Mother
"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
Attention
"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
Students
"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life
"I have always loved going to school."
School
"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
Decision
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
Growing up
"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
Experience
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
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