"Some people are oil and water."

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Source : John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

John Christopher

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“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”
“The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.”
“I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else's religious community has its own lessons, really. It is something like the power of visiting another very happy extended family and being at their table.”

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“Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.”
“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.”
“Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience.”
“The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?”

Source : "Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation". Book by Tyler Cowen, 2013.

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