"Whatâ€™s this? What are the antagonists doing here â€“ infiltrating their own audience? Well, theyâ€™re not really. Itâ€™s somebody elseâ€™s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think."

-- Thomas Pynchon

#Thinking Quotes #Rockets Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.”
“Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ...”
“The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.”
“If a shop has a lot of sections I'll end up putting my record above the James Blunt CDs since he ripped off my bloody artwork and he's selling millions of records! I try to get people to buy mine accidentally.”

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“War would end if the dead could return.”
“It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer and â€œthe righteous shall hardly escape.â€ â€¦So that is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, â€œjudge not, lest ye be judged.”
“Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.”

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“For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.”

Source : "Deutsche Technik", p. 270, June 1935.

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