"My parents were determined to move into the…" — Martin Lewis Perl
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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19 Quotes by Martin Lewis Perl
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
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My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to…
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I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early…
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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book…
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A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called…
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About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
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It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
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There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every…
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Nature's curriculum cannot be changed.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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