"There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, wonâ€™t let us look anywhere else in the room if thereâ€™s a map on the wall."

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Source : Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Ken Jennings

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“Few things worth having can be got easily.”
“Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!”
“Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons.”
“Joss Whedon said to me, 'If you think you are taking over the show, you have got another think coming.' He said, 'You are here only because I don't want to kill a villain off every week. I want my villains to be more interesting and multifaceted and then die.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty.”
“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.”
“Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned.”

Source : Diogenes Laertius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Diogenes Laertius (Illustrated)”, p.145, Delphi Classics
“Little kids learn to walk by falling. They fall forward and eventually they start catching themselves. All walking is controlled falling. Itâ€™s the same with success. You learn by failing. Success is just controlled failing.”

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