"What was it like working with John Carmack on Quake? Like being strapped onto a rocket during takeoff â€“ in the middle of a hurricane."

-- Michael Abrash

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“Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From around 2 or 3, the pretty ones already know how and why they get attention. And how quickly they learn to play it. Use it. And how quickly the rest of us figure out we don't have it.”
“How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?”
“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.”
“For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2014). “Spirits of Battle: featuring The Bowmen”, p.5, Courier Corporation
“I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.”
“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1985). “Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories”, p.207, U of Nebraska Press
“Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.”

Source : Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. (1997). “Lucid Waking: Mindfulness and the Spiritual Potential of Humanity”, p.8, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.”

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