"Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium."

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Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.183, Akashic Books

Joe Meno

#Confused Quotes #Real Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.”
“Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well...”

Source : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA
“I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.”
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.”
“It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.”
“Good taste is as tiring as good company.”
“Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.”
“When Slenderman screams, the world will end.”

Source : Jack Goldstein, Jimmy Russell (2012). “101 Amazing Slenderman Facts”, p.13, Andrews UK Limited

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