"I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction."

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Source : Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.61, Open Road Media

Michael Chabon

#Kids Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Awful Quotes

“Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.”

Source : David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
“If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.”
“I think technology is fantastic but maybe it's just developed too fast for us in real world applications. By the same token the fact that a guy can get a laptop and make music that can be put straight into a TV show I suppose shows a disparity when you're somebody who has gone to college and learned all this stuff. So if you apply that to the entire world than certainly computers have changed everything. But I'd be a hypocrite if I complained about it because it's given me a career. I'm part of the problem is what I'm saying!”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.”

Source : William Robertson Smith, John Sutherland Black (1907). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
“I am god...to the dislexic segment of the population.”
“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.22, Routledge
“We need to never consider ourselves as having 'arrived'; always trying to learn how we can change to be more like Christ”
“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each otherâ€™s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”

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