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When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

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When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

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The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

Robert Aickman Writer

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

Robert Aickman Writer

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Robert Aickman Writer

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.

Robert Aickman Writer

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Thom Yorke Musician

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Warren Buffett Investor

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Adele Singer-Songwriter

I feel like I would have ultimately ended up pursuing acting. It probably would have been much more difficult and taken a lot longer for me to get into it professionally.

Alden Ehrenreich Actor

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist

What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.

Ambrose Saint

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