"I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate."

-- Joseph A. Schumpeter

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“Iâ€™m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping. When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. Iâ€™ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.”
“We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.”
“In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.”
“The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.”

Source : Grace King (1973). “Grace King of New Orleans: A Selection of Her Writings”, p.35, LSU Press
“Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.”
“There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.”
“There’s no Democratic way to run a city and there’s no Republican way to run a city -- just the right way to run a city.”
“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

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