"We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity."

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Source : "Mind the Gap". Book by Ferdinand Mount, 2004.

Ferdinand Mount

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“what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?”
“Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.”
“It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.”
“They promised me that this would be my home. That girls like you would always be my sisters. But they weren't my sisters, were they?" Catherine asked, but then the lunacy broke, a quick and fleeting crack, and through it I saw anger and bitterness and rage.”
“Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.”
“Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"”
“As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.”
“Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications. We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.”

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