"The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt."

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Source : Francis Parkman (1871). “Pioneers of France in the New World”, p.10

Francis Parkman

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“Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.”

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“Deal-making goes on with any job.”
“I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used”

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“Being happy is more important than anything else.”
“The day that I die will be by far the most beautiful day I ever lived,”

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“I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.”
“It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.”
“A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.”

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