This was during the final month of the era when it was possible to press a series of buttons on a telephone and speak with someone on the far side of the earth.
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“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
― Fear of Flying
― Fear of Flying
“There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.”
― Fear of Flying
― Fear of Flying
“the most effective problem-finders become adept at searching for and identifying patterns.”
― Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen
― Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen
“I was no longer needing to be special, because I was no longer so caught in my puny separateness that had to keep proving I was something. I was part of the universe, like a tree is, or like grass is, or like water is. Like storms, like roses. I was just part of it all.”
― Changing Lenses
― Changing Lenses
“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”
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