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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
| Leo Baekeland, Inventor (1863) |
| Travis Barker, Musician (1975) |
| Jim Cantalupo, Businessman (1943) |
| Wendy Carlos, Musician (1939) |
| Grace Darling, Celebrity (1815) |
| Stefano Gabbana, Designer (1962) |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant (1922) |
| Laura San Giacomo, Actress (1962) |
| Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer (1956) |
| Veronica Lake, Actress (1919) |
| William Ames, Philosopher (1633) |
| William Samuel Johnson, Politician (1819) |
| John LaFarge, Artist (1910) |
| Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher (1716) |


