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  • #1
    Suketu Mehta
    “This is the biggest difference between the world’s two largest democracies: In India, the poor vote.”
    Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

  • #2
    Yuval Noah Harari
    “The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge.”
    Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

  • #3
    Robert Fulghum
    “As long as life exists, something always happens next. There are always consequences—always sequels.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

  • #4
    Robert Fulghum
    “Keep your eyes open. Suspend judgment. Be useful,”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

  • #6
    Anthony Doerr
    “Her great-uncle seems kind, curious, and entirely sane. Stillness: this is what he radiates more than anything else. The stillness of a tree. Of a mouse blinking in the dark.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #7
    Walter Isaacson
    “It should not be hard for you to look at stains on walls, or the ashes of a fire, or the clouds, or mud, and if you consider them well you will find marvelous new ideas, because the mind is stimulated to new inventions by obscure things.9”
    Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci

  • #8
    “the adoption of a narrower pelvis to accommodate our new gait brought a huge amount of pain and danger to women in childbirth. Until recent times, no other animal on Earth was more likely to die in childbirth than a human, and perhaps none even now suffers as much.”
    Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

  • #9
    W. Timothy Gallwey
    “The player of the inner game comes to value the art of relaxed concentration above all other skills; he discovers a true basis for self-confidence; and he learns that the secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.”
    W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance



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