"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."

-- Charles Babbage

#Light Quotes #Order Quotes #Velocity Quotes

“I grew up in the 1970s and I am a product of women's liberation. My generation is really the first one to fully benefit from the movement. It's the same for homosexuals. We are the first generation to really accept that someone is gay. I work with people who are gay and of course I don't think about it. I don't care if someone lives with a man. Twenty years ago it was an issue. Now it's not.”
“You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.”
“On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.”

Source : "The Unexpurgated Code". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1975.
“I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.”
“I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.”
“I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.”

Source : Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
“Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.”

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