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Cover photo by me

Paris, June 2025

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“To me, the motif itself is an insignificant factor. What I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me. I am pursuing the impossible.”

-Claude Monet

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“At this time I think of nothing but work. I am at an age where I can't afford to lose a minute.” Like a shark that would drown if it stopped swimming, Monet seemed to believe that he would die if he stopped painting. By the summer of 1920, it was clear that he would be painting the grand decoration, “until the end.”

-From the awesome book by author Ross King, 'Mad Enchantment'

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my favorite Kurzweil line,

His Grandfather was able to touch with his own hands original manuscripts from da Vinci.
12 year old Ray watched his Grandfather describe the experience with reverence and never forgot it.

"This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas."

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“the supreme disposition for learning,”

Published in 1920 by AG Sertillanges, ‘The Intellectual Life’

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@peladodelatv my favorite Fangio line -

"There are those who keep out of mischief and there are the adventurers. We racing drivers are adventurers. The more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it."

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"I have stood on the front lines in the fight against outdated opinions and public prejudice for too long to have ever cared much for external honors and awards. And the title I cherish most has always been the one my parents themselves bestowed upon me at birth."

- The father of the automobile, Carl Benz

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@RealCJ10 awesome

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the greatest regret i have is underestimating the value of long term compounding.

friendships, people, places, all get better with decades. beautiful things dont even start to reveal themselves for years. it is entirely what life is about. a few good things for a long time.

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@oldstocky 🎯

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@verstappenews I do the same thing here in the sim 😂

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Driven -

“I’m increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I’m praying that I’ll have a few more good years left to me because I think I may make some progress in that direction.”

- Claude Monet

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@Thevictoria76 awesome

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"Once you look back, you're finished."

- Colin Chapman

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"Simplify, then add lightness"

- Colin Chapman

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@str8edgeracer Awesome

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"There were men faster than Willie Mays, but I never saw one faster with a fly ball in the air."

- Buck O'Neil

“Teammate Whitey Lockman, describing a bare-handed catch Mays made on a dead run off a Roberto Clemente line drive:

"He reached up with his right hand and caught it. I thought, 'Oh, my God, that's not human.'"

"By combining the best of Cobb and Ruth, Willie Mays forged his own era by creating a new standard - “the five-tool player."

- From the book 'Willie Mays' by author James S. Hirsch

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“With Mays contributing glittering heroics each day with his basket catches, his rubber arm, booming bat, and, most important, his contagious, irrepressible zest..."

- Sportswriter, Grantland Rice, June 1954

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@bscholl 🎯💯