"Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book."

-- Mark Z. Danielewski

#Book Quotes #Light Quotes #Thieves Quotes

“On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.”
“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”
“The greatest medicine is a true friend.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1740). “The life and character of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679 to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.309
“However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.85, Anza Publishing
“Great coders are todayâ€™s rock stars.”
“Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.”
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
“If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic dimensions like electronic ambient music, it's pushes all of that colour to the foreground so you hear little every atom of sound.”

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