"If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education."

-- Scott Banister

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“The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.”
“It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.”
“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.”
“I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into place or not, each year, for each book, has made me a little more tranquil about the process for my own book than I might otherwise be.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.”
“If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.”
“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.”

Source : "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.
“If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.”

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