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.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
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I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.
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I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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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.
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Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
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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.
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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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.
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What will happen, will happen.
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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.
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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.
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You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.
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The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.
