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"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
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"Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies."

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."

"Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement."

"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."

"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."
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"My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World."

"As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way."

"My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months."

"At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends."

"People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms."

"Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order."

"So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students."
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