"It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us."

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David J. C. MacKay

#Vacuums Quotes #Loud Quotes #Behinds Quotes

“I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.”
“We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.”
“I'm confident, but not so confident that I'm cocky.”
“If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church.”
“I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best....”
“There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.”
“It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song”
“To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.”

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