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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#civilization #conditions #conference #education #good

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#area #came #children #parents #polish

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#buy #chemistry #i #interested #me

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#early #hard #i #learned #me

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. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#all americans #american #because #being #believed

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. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#course #expected #i #interesting #languages

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. ↗

— Richard Perle

#children #clever #diplomacy #embrace #entirely

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. ↗

— Richard Perle

#difference #dissent #eager #lose #may

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#lisp #nests #parentheses #pens #programmer

I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conducting #different #different perspectives #doing #each