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“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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