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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes. ↗


— Walter Kohn


#company #developed #during #electrical #i

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ↗


— Walter Kohn


#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective. ↗


— Walter Kohn


#attainment #because #board #convinced #early

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. ↗


— Walter Kohn


#austrian #born #class #disastrous #end

I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me back then – would say, “Oh, really?” and raise their eyebrows and look at me a little more carefully. I remember the first party I went to after I became a teacher, someone asked me what I did for a living, and I said, “Well, I teach high school.” He looked over my shoulder, nodded his head, said, “I went to high school,” and walked away. Once I repeated this anecdote around a big table full of Mexican food in the garden at a place called La Choza in Chicago, and Becky Mueller, another teacher at the school, said that I was a “storyteller.” I liked that. I was looking for something to be other than “just” a teacher, and “storyteller” felt about right. I am a teacher and a storyteller in that order. I have made my living and my real contribution to my community as a teacher, and I have been very lucky to have found that calling, but all through the years I have entertained myself and occasionally other people by telling stories. ↗


— Peter Ferry


#careers #humor #learning #teaching #travel

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego. ↗


— Walter Kohn


#been #california #diego #establishment #i

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. ↗


— Walter Kohn


#i #nuclear #nuclear physics #originally #particular

I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older. ↗


— Saku Koivu


#also #always #develop #different #eventually

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while. ↗


— Saku Koivu


#back #been #ended #haven #i

It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden. ↗


— Saku Koivu


#always #back #beat #better #country






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