"Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined."

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Source : Vernon L. Smith (2008). “Discovery - A Memoir”, p.123, AuthorHouse

Vernon L. Smith

“When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.”
“A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.”

Source : John Foster (1826). “Essays, in a Series of Letters, on the Following Subjects: On Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself. On Decision of Character. On the Application of the Epithet Romantic. On Some of the Causes by which Evangelical Religion Has Been Rendered Less Acceptable to Persons of Cultivated Taste”, p.67
“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)”

Source : Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.793, Random House
“I didnâ€™t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira”
“I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.”
“It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.”
“Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.”
“It's neat for Kyle to win, ... I think you'd have sympathy for anybody if you put yourself in that situation and got taken out of the race car. But I have absolutely no information about what was going on.”

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