"I had all the characteristics of a human beingâ€”flesh, blood, skin, hairâ€”but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning"

-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Reality Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.”
“All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.”
“It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration.”

Source : "Notation as a Tool of Thought". Cvommunications of the ACM, 23 (8), (pp. 444 - 465), August 1980.
“If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into a wall and having to stop. Whereas it might take three or four hours if you start over, you might finish if you just work that extra hour. If you're a morning person, the day always intrudes a fixed amount of time in the future. So it's much less efficient. Which is why I think computer people tend to be night people - because a machine doesn't get sleepy.”
“The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.”

Source : William Fleming (1857). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.264
“A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.”
“The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.”
“I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.”

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