"When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance."

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Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

Anthony Powell

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“Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.”
“Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.”
“Fine. I'll train. But I'm going to the stinking capitol if I have to kill a crew and fly there myself." Says Johanna. "Probably best not to bring that up in training," I say. "But it's nice to know I'll have a ride.”
“American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.”
“One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.”
“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.”

Source : "Peter Higgs' Big Day". Interview with Jessica Griggs, www.slate.com. July 29, 2012.
“Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.”
“[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who should seek him sincerely, and that he has nevertheless so disguised them that he will only be perceived by those who seek him with all their heart.”

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