Father Quotes by Paul Laffoley

At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to…

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The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with…

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Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity…

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My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why?…

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[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true,…

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Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same…

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I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing…

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When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very…

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Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird…

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I was born rather late in [my father's] life, in his mid - 40s. And so what he did up until the…

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[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns…

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My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space."…

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[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he…

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I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr.…

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My father knew all about this stuff [C.W. Leadbeater]. I owe a lot of what I'm doing, I think, to him. I'm…

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Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then…

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[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would…

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My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

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[My father] was always upset that my mother didn't want to live in New York. Because he said he wanted to live…

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Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the…

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To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when…

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