"The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours."

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David Gerrold

#Success Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Secret Quotes

“I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.”
“in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.”
“If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.”
“It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.”

Source : "The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.
“Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.”
“I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.”
“Never play anything the same way twice.”
“Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers. You develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when youâ€™re about to surrender, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly.”

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