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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
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“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”
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“Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.”
Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013 
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“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”
Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
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“One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.”
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“You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.”
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“There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.”
