"You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul."

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Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.103, Vintage

Kevin Brockmeier

#Simple Quotes #Years Quotes #Soul Quotes

“That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!”
“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”
“We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.”
“In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.”
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing.”
“Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.”
“Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.”
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”

Source : Bill Nye (2015). “Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World”, p.370, St. Martin's Press

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