Richard Powers Quotes
I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
Richard Powers
Quotes to Explore
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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
Don Felder
The Eagles
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
Erica Jong
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Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
David Bronstein
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What will happen, will happen.
Brom
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The Sunshine and Shadow design. The Amish A Devoted Christian's Prayer Book contained the prayer, "We pray, O Holy Father, that we might leave behind the night of sin and guilt and ever walk in the shining light of Thy wondrous grace, and cast off the works of darkness, put on the armor of light, and walk honestly as in the day.
Barbara Cameron
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You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.
Miriam Makeba
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I can go from doing an electronic track to hip-hop to even folk songs. I think people like that variety in me.
Hyuna
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There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.
Danica McKellar
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In Sarah Palin's new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, 'Thank you, God,' which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin.
Conan O'Brien
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Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside.
Michel Foucault
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Harold MacMillan
