"Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil"

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Ralph Venning

#Promise Quotes #Devil Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.”

Source : "O'Reilly Open Source Conference: Day 3". www.apacheweek.com. July 26, 2002.
“I think that you know you have experts in fields who spend their life studying one thing. When an event goes on that chances are they're going to want that specific expert who has done it to be on the show talking about it, not a writer or an artist of any sort, which I think is a mistake because you know we don't have... I mean we have them, but there is certainly not you know in strong force public philosophers anymore.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could I combine my work with this commitment to helping dementia? One of the myths is that it's an older person's disease. We're seeing early onset dementia among people at 45. It's the disease of everybody.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.”
“I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.”
“A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.”

Source : Source: www.mcall.com
“Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.”
“This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (1991). “A Writer's Reality”, Mariner Books

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