"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."

-- Tracy Kidder

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“Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.”
“Happiness is not the end of life: character is.”
“Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.”
“Sentence first, verdict afterwards.”
“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 get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.”
“Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”

Source : "Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice". Book by Napoleon Hill, p. 104, 1991.
“People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.”

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