"According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here."

-- Seth Lloyd

#Years Quotes #Sitting Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.”
“The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.”
“There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.”
“To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.”

Source : Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books
“Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.”
“I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.”
“At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]”

Source : "The Art of Poetry (Canto III)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.
“...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking...Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.”

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