"Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them."

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Source : "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Harry Potter fan fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky, www.hpmor.com. 2010 - 2015.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Bravery Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Faces Quotes

“If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.”

Source : "On the Record: Marc Benioff". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2006.
“Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.”
“Then the angels, the demon, and the Nephilim flew to distant corners of the sky, leaving a moment's brilliant flash of light behind them, as below, Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first-and the last- time”
“The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”

Source : Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.”
“Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.”
“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”

Source : "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.
“Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.”

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