"The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous."

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Source : "The Road to an Effective Innovation Diplomacy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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“Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.”

Source : Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”
“You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.”
“In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.”

Source : "Memories of Duckburg". Zeit Magazin, Hamburg, 1989.
“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”
“I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.”
“Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.”

Source : "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.
“There are two ways through life: the way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things.”

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