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There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
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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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This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
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They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
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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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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
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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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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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About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
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Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
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My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
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