"We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills."

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Janette Turner Hospital

#Two Quotes #Plot Quotes #Three Quotes

“Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.”
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.”
“It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.”
“You can't change the fruit without changing the root.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.254, Mango Media Inc.
“Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .”

Source : Andre Weil (2012). “The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician”, p.91, Birkhäuser
“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
“I like being around funny people.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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