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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

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I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.

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All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

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I was working with these very long-chain. . . extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. . . . Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. . . . We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.

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[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

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