"A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England"

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Richard Saul Wurman

#New York Quotes #Average Quotes #Weekdays Quotes

“I'm not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that's how you get better. That's how I've gotten better at everything I've ever done. Don't be too proud to ask for help.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”
“It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.”

Source : Alexandra Fuller (2005). “Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier”, p.175, Penguin
“There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.”
“If you donâ€™t know the men at your back by name, donâ€™t be surprised if they wonâ€™t follow you into battle. On the other hand, donâ€™t be surprised if they will, either, because there are countless other factors you must take into account. Leadership is a slippery commodity, not easily manufactured or understood.”
“He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.”
“The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you”
“The stationary condition is the beginning of the end”

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