"All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't."

-- Angus Wilson

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Magic Quotes

“All bayonets are bad.”
“So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.”
“The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self.”
“Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.”
“But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.”
“Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed”
“The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power.”

Source : "Week In Politics: Dennis Blair, Financial Bill, Elections". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 21, 2010.
“When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known.”

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