"The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels."

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Thomas Friedman

#Three Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Digging Quotes

“A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.”
“Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.”
“If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.”
“It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.”
“All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
“Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.”
“If Islam opposes terrorism, then Saudi Arabia should announce that no one supportive of ISIS or Al Qaeda is welcome in Mecca to make Hajj.”
“I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not.”

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