"I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life."

Source : "Unconventional Education Fuels Author's First Novel". Interview with James Hattori, www.npr.org. October 14, 2007.

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“Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.”
“Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?”
“I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.”

Source : "I think we changed the whole business ethos in India: Mukesh Ambani". Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti and Daksesh Parikh, indiatoday.intoday.in. June 30, 1993.
“Material things aren't important to me.”
“It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.”
“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.”
“Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press
“Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.”

Source : Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”

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