Douglas Hofstadter You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated ‘you’ makes more decisions, and so forth, ’round and ’round. – Douglas Hofstadter Actions Quotes Affect Quotes Decisions Quotes Feedback Quotes Incorporate Quotes Receive Quotes Updated Quotes We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an ‘unlucky number.’ Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label ’13’ in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact). This sentence contradicts itself – no actually it doesn’t.
David Knopfler I didn’t really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. – David Knopfler
Nicola Sturgeon My message is a simple one – the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland’s interests are best served by being a member. – Nicola Sturgeon
Emma Chamberlain There were times when we couldn’t even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn’t enough money. – Emma Chamberlain
Morris WestRelationship Once you accept the existence of God – however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him – then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. – Morris West
Philip Roth With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring. – Philip Roth
Robinho When you leave Real Madrid – a famous club worldwide – it’s normal to get criticism. – Robinho
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