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“My work is that of conservation, the saving of things that the average person throws away.”

Source: Notes on a demonstration for a cooking school for chefs, 29 June 1936 (Tuskegee University Archives)

Context In notes on a 1936 demonstration for a cooking school for chefs, he summed up his lifelong work of finding uses for materials usually thrown away.

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George Washington CarverUnited States · c. 1864–1943
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