"There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight."

-- Robin Sloan

#Knowing Quotes #Sight Quotes #Secret Quotes

“My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.”
“Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.”
“It is the time to move ahead and bring the change”
“Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real service as ministers in the South. Less theology and more of human brotherhood, less declamation and more common sense and love for truth, must be the qualifications of the new ministry that shall yet save the race from the evils of false teaching.”
“We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.”
“The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.35
“In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.”
“You're working so hard and so many hours, you simply don't get to visit with everybody when you're gone for five months. That's part of the trade in we make with this career. You don't get to maintain the intimacy you would like to.One of the big things I was doing was working on reestablishing that.”

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