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"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
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"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."

"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."

"I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."

"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."

"Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great."

"But the building's identity resided in the ornament."
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"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."

"As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake."

"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."

"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later."

"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."

"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."

"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."

"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language."
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