"Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing."

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Source : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

Ned Beauman

#Old Things Quotes #Chance Quotes #Increase Quotes

“It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?”
“Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company
“Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.' I should be honored, Your Majesty.' I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece from France. I hope you will like it.' I should be grateful.' It is for your daughter. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine.”
“We have problems with our physical security, operational security through to management.”
“Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.”

Source : "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.”
“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson

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