"Their educations ended with high school - my……" — Martin Lewis Perl
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
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Martin Lewis Perl
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19 Quotes by Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl has 19 quotes on this site.
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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 were determined to move into the middle class.
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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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My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a…
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I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have…
— Joey Comeau
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
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The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a…
— Harry Browne
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I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a…
— Thomas Berry
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
— Bela Lugosi
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This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper…
— Ayn Rand
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of…
— John Steinbeck
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Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many…
— Ann McLane Kuster
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