"Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for matter there is always the moral to fall back upon. Comparisons too may be drawn, leading cases cited, types and antetypes analysed and anecdotes introduced. Except for Archimedes mathematics is singularly naked of anecdotes."

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Leadership Quotes #Fall Quotes #Naked Quotes

“I am terribly fascinated with things that I donâ€™t understand.”

Source : "Richard Saul Wurman: 'My World Is a Lattice'". Interview with Emma Robertson, the-talks.com. October 22, 2014.
“The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.”
“I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.”
“Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.”
“We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.”
“No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.”
“Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.”

Source : Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com
“In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.”

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