"Put your good where it will do the most!"

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Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.145, Macmillan

Tom Wolfe

“I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.”
“As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.”
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.87, Open Road Media
“I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.”
“Since politics â€” until recently â€” has been a manâ€™s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.”
“Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.”
“Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.”

Source : Charles Sheffield (1992). “Brother to Dragons”

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