People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.