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Malcolm Gladwell

"The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done."

Source : "Think Like a Freak extract: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and David Cameron" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2014.

Malcolm Gladwell

#Pain Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Winning Quotes

“When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.”
“We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.”
“It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.”
“She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!”
“May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.”

Source : Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd
“You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.”
“Be a fountain, not a drain.”
“My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture Godâ€™s vision for your ministry.â€”

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