"I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it."

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Source : Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.44, Random House

Paul Harding

#Book Quotes #Saws Quotes

“It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.”

Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
“I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.”
“The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.”
“I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.”
“By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.”
“As we started working with leaders, providing them with assessment feedback, noticing the impact it was having on them, and their teams, a real story unfolded, and the book All the Leader You Can Be became what it is now - a guide to leaders who want to understand their strengths, and also appreciate how to enhance their leadership.”
“Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.”
“The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.”

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