"But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality."

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Marcel Proust

#Lying Quotes #Reality Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.”

Source : Zoey Dean (2008). “Almost Famous, A Talent novel”, p.105, Penguin
“When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.”
“Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.”
“If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?”

Source : John Howard Yoder (1994). “The Politics of Jesus: Vicit Agnus Noster”, p.232, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.”
“I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.”
“Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.”
“The game taught me the game.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre, Jon D. Markman (2010). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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