"If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong."

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Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.1, Da Capo Press

Gordon Livingston

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“I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.”
“though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.”
“So now, I exhort you with this truth: Don't spend all your life playing it safe! Safety is very comfortable, but it may be keeping you from God's perfect plan for your life...”
“In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are not concentrated in one sex over the other, nor in persons with certain accents or in certain races or in persons holding degrees from some universities over others. When we indulge ourselves in such irrational prejudices, we damage ourselves most of all and ultimately assure ourselves of failure in competition with those more open and less biased.”

Source : "Cummins Mourns the Loss of Visionary Leader". investor.cummins.com. August 16, 2004.
“A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
“Worship is love responding to love.”

Source : Judson Cornwall (2013). “Let Us Worship”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com
“When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.”

Source : Fanny Kemble, Fanny Kemble Wister (1972). “Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters”
“I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.”

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