"Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error."

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Source : Tim Powers (1997). “The Anubis Gates”, p.406, Penguin

Tim Powers

#Errors Quotes #Answers Quotes #Problem Quotes

“There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.”
“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
“I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.117, Random House
“Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.”
“We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Source : Council on Foreign Relations meeting, www.cfr.org. August 8, 2012.
“Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.”
“...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.”

Source : Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder (2012). “Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2: Halloween Rain; Bad Bargain; AfterImage”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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