"It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect."

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Source : Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.38, Anchor

Colson Whitehead

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“A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.”
“A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.”
“Stop the life cycle-I want to get off!”

Source : "A spiral model of software development and enhancement". "Computer" 21.5: 61-72, 1988.
“Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.”
“He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.”
“Half the people said that their lives had become better after a life crisis as a result of changes they made; some said the benefits and downsides balanced each other out; a smaller proportion said they never really recovered.”
“Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the Father is actual place. For how could He that is uncircumscribed have a right hand limited by place? But we understand the right hand of the Father to be the glory and honor of the Godhead in which the Son of God, Who existed as God before the ages, and is of like essence to the Father, and in the end became flesh, has a seat in the body, His flesh sharing in the glory. For He along with His flesh is adored with one adoration by all creation.”
“Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.”

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