"The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons."

-- Hans Holzer

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“If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.”
“Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.”
“A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.”
“It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015”
“For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.”
“The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.”
“With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?”
“Who can really say how decisions are made, how emotions change, how ideas arise? We talk about inspiration; about a bolt of lightnng from a clear sky, but perhaps everything is just as simple and just as infinitely complex as the processes that make a particular leaf fall at a particularmoment. That point has been reached, that's all. It has to happen, and it does happen.”

Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Harbour”, p.232, Hachette UK

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