“The Sales were important to us because that was how we got hold of things from outside.”
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 4, p. 41
“It is not the things that we have, but how we use them that is important.”
in My experiences in different laboratories, autobiographical speech by von Békésy published in Fizikai Szemle 1999/5. 166.o.
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