Quotes
Authors
Robin Weigert

"To talk about something like prostitution, the other person then becomes the wild card that will have a response, and it may not be the response you want. Sometimes I think saying it would be selfish to tell them is still being under the illusion that you have all the power. You say it would be selfish to tell them, when in fact you're scared that in telling them, it gives them the power to do what they might want to do because once they know, they become somebody who could be reactive."

-- Robin Weigert

#Selfish Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
“Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.”
“You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.”
“... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.88, Penguin
“You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere.”
“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

Source : "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.
“Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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