"I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys..."

-- Umberto Eco

#Eye Quotes #Order Quotes #Roots Quotes

“In â€˜life,â€™ I donâ€™t want to be reduced to my work. In â€˜work,â€™ I donâ€™t want to be reduced to my life.”
“Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.”
“Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.”
“London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.”
“If you want proof that Catfish was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.”

Source : "Yaniv “Nev” Schulman Talks CATFISH: THE TV SHOW, Which Chronicles His Trek Around the Country to Document Couples in Online Romances". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 7, 2012.
“Patience mimics the power of infinity.”

Source : Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles.”
“Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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