"I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right."

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C.P. Snow

#Two Quotes #Culture Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.”
“Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.”
“[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.”
“Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.”
“Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.172, Lulu.com
“I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials.”
“Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.”
“A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers.”

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