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"The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs."
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"To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life."
"You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want."
"Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things."
"Do not pursue what you cannot keep."
"When you rearrange, make it meaningful and significant. Don't rearrange just for the sake of rearranging. It would be as "pointless as rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. In other words, why waste your time on frivolous activities which could be easily undone or do nothing to contribute to the solution of your problem?"
"Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!"
"Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies."
"There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute."
"It's all about 'Priorities'. There's No Such Thing as 'Busy'."
"Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."
"Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster."
"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
"As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality."
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