"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative."

-- Ben Kingsley

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“If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.”

Source : "Song: 'Getting to Know You'". "The King and I". Musical by Oscar Hammerstein II, 1956.
“The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.”
“Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.”
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”
“The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.527, Georg Olms Verlag
“Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it.”
“If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.”
“The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.”

Source : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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