"One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."

-- Elon Musk

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“Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”
“My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.”
“I don't know what's on the other side.”
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
“It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.”

Source : "The Key to Creating Jobs" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2011.
“I've always thought the prettiest smiles are the ones that show the most teeth.”

Source : D. W. Wilson (2013). “Ballistics”, p.39, Bloomsbury Publishing
“When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.”
“The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.”

Source : Guy Davenport (2013). “The Guy Davenport Reader”, p.61, Counterpoint

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