"The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail."

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“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”

Source : "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.
“Stupid people always ignored good advice”
“Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt
“The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.”
“In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.”
“The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure.”
“I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.”
“We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.”

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