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“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”
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“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”
Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004. 
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“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”
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“When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.”
Source : Alan A. Altshuler (1961). “The process of planning in two American cities”
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“I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left”
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“Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.”
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“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
