“It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“We in America have been very fortunate. We've been blessed with a wonderful country and everything and wonderful resources.”
Interview (July 1998)
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
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Donna Strickland (1959) Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel prize winner
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