“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer
Source: Finally and Forever
“Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.”
Source: Leaving Time
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