"Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Faces Quotes #Association Quotes #Social Quotes

“I am a bit old-school.”
“The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.”
“The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation
“Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.”
“When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.”
“There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.”
“The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.”
“Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.”

Source : Joan Lindsay (2016). “The Secret of Hanging Rock”, p.15, ETT Imprint

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