"Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities."

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Source : Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.610, Penguin

Daniel Suarez

#Reality Quotes #Games Quotes #Play Quotes

“For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses and imagination; but one had but a rough picture and not a precise idea on which reasoning could take hold.”
“I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.”
“The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.”
“The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.”
“If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.”
“My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.”
“The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.

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