"Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing."

-- W. G. Sebald

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“Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.”
“The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.”
“Garner knowledge, by any means possible”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.62, Pan Macmillan
“Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.”
“Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.115
“I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.”
“We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what weâ€™re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the â€œthick of thin things.â€ In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.”
“There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.”

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