"Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world."

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Diane Ackerman

#World Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro, of past and future, within and without, merit and harm. Wherever the centre of a thing lies, there lies its heart, for the word 'heart' means centrality.”
“The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.”
“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.29, New York Review of Books
“Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.”
“There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later,”

Source : Leon Levy, Eugene Linden (2009). “The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market”, p.8, PublicAffairs
“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”
“Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.”
“When you say, â€˜I have nothing to hide,â€™ youâ€™re saying, â€˜I donâ€™t care about this right.â€™ Youâ€™re saying, â€˜I donâ€™t have this right, because Iâ€™ve got to the point where I have to justify it.â€™ The way rights work is, the government has to justify its intrusion into your rights.”

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