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"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."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"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."
People
"First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes."
First
"At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends."
Career
"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."
Life
"As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way."
Life
"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."
Opportunity
"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
Research
"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."
Age
"And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance."
Medical
"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
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