"I built a system simple enough to sustain itself."

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Pierre Omidyar

#Simple Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.”

Source : "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.
“I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.”

Source : Peter Benchley (2008). “Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea”, p.49, Yearling
“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.”
“Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.”
“Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.”
“You don't get bored making an album.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.”
“It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'. Having said that, we are all many things - for example I'm Igbo and Nigerian, a director, a filmmaker etc., but I feel what affects me the most, especially the way people/society view or treat me, is the fact that I'm a woman, and I'm fascinated by that.”

Source : "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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