"Being the first born gives you great patience."

-- Abraham Verghese

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“Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.”
“The optimist in me sees corporations in the present era as more open to change than they were in the 1990s. Certainly, because of the relatively poor performance of many corporations in the early part of millennial , there seems to be less arrogance in executive suites, and that usually translates to a willingness to consider alternatives.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”
“High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for if things 'go wrong', it is already too late.”
“When people ask me what my religion is, I say its the Arsenal.”

Source : "'I'm not very fast at my times tables'". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.
“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
“Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.”

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