"If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance."

-- James P. Gorman

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“"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."”
“And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.”
“Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.”
“It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!”
“The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.”
“But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...”
“On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.”

Source : "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.
“With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.”

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