"The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa."

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Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.46, Spectra

Gregory Benford

#Air Quotes #Vices Quotes #Peers Quotes

“When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.”
“What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.”

Source : Catherine Crowe (1854). “The Night Side of Nature: Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers”, p.498
“The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage.”
“I cried at my son's sports day, for God's sake. I'm a huge baby”
“Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]”
“Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.”
“What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.”
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.300, Macmillan

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