"... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere."

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Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.79, Atlantic Books Ltd

Robin Sloan

#Long Quotes #Giants Quotes #Empires Quotes

“My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press
“I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.”
“I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.”
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
“Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.”

Source : Samuel Gompers, William Green (1921). “The American Federationist”
“I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out.”

Source : "Tell Me A Lie: 7 Hulk Hogan Stories That Nobody Actually Believes" by David Dennis, Jr., uproxx.com. April 17, 2015.
“Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.”
“I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.”

Source : Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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