"I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean."

-- C.P. Snow

#Ocean Quotes #Moving Quotes #Two Quotes

“They don't know you're secretly a badass?”
“Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.”
“Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.”
“Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.”
“An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.”
“When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!”
“There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.”
“Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.”

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