"I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source."

-- Andrew Johnson

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“What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.”
“There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.”

Source : "A Man to Match His Mountains: Badshah Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam". Book by Eknath Easwaran, 1984.
“What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.”
“I write about true-life type things.”
“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”
“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”
“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.”
“Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.”

Source : "Erik Brynjolfsson: In A Race With Machines, Can We Keep Up?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 21, 2017.

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