"For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call."

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Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.322, Del Rey

Ben Aaronovitch

#Hug Quotes #Moments Quotes #Close Calls Quotes

“It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.”
“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
“I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.”

Source : "Helena Christensen: 'I'm 41 and better than ever.. I will worry about age at 120'" by Rachel Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. June 06, 2010.
“...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For that reason we should do (as wise programmers aware of our limitations) our utmost to shorten the conceptual gap between the static program and the dynamic process, to make the correspondence between the program (spread out in text space) and the process (spread out in time) as trivial as possible.”
“If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to beÂ received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comesÂ by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faithÂ to faith.”
“I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.”
“Music stops you from thinking.”
“Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you.”

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