"Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied."

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Source : Verlyn Klinkenborg (2013). “More Scenes from the Rural Life”, p.110, Princeton Architectural Press

Verlyn Klinkenborg

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“I think I'm happiest when there are really talented people around.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Orangutans look straight into your soul.”
“If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'”
“I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.'”
“The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.”

Source : Carroll Smith (1996). “Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving”, Motorbooks International
“To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.”
“Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.”
“We cannot transform what we refuse to engage”

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