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"It was always assumed that I would go to college."
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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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"I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start."
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"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."
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"The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment."
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"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."
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"Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?"
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"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."
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"Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day."
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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college."
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"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."
War
"The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal."
Home
"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."
Death
"Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock."
Blood
"If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer."
Family
"I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information."
Choice
"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."
Experience
"In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department."
Contrast
"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."
Basketball
"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."
Being
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