"Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he causes things to happen... it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation."

-- Gregory Bateson

#Men Quotes #Information Quotes #Causes Quotes

“I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.”
“Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.”
“Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.81
“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”
“Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.”
“Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.”
“Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.”
“I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.”

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