"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person"
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). “You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life”, p.15, Harper Collins
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