"Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship"

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Adam Gopnik

#Reading Quotes #Pirate Quotes #Magazines Quotes

“I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.”
“I declare that I will establish peace in this world.”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”
“I vowed I wouldn't ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I'd been through a workout. If I wasn't tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.”
“I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.”

Source : Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.
“Obedience sums up our entire duty.”
“There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.”

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