"It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have."

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Source : Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage

Jesse Ball

#Heart Quotes #Enterprise Quotes #Consensus Quotes

“There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.”

Source : "A Historic Victory for Health Care Reform" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2009.
“I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.”
“If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.”
“I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, â€œGet a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.â€ My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: â€œWhen you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town â€“ to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.”
“Musically, there's a movement called the flatted fifth that's really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up dark, fantastic images. It's like an audio horror movie. It personifies what a horror movie is about.”
“Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.”
“My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.”
“We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.”

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