"Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment."

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Source : Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.17, Hachette UK

Hannu Rajaniemi

#Long Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes #Sun Quotes

“How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")”
“The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.”
“What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think?”
“For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?”
“If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.”

Source : Eric Greitens (2011). “The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.”
“Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.”

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