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"whatever this is ramping up to be, it's more than just spycraft." — Jan 31, 2019 09:47AM
"whatever this is ramping up to be, it's more than just spycraft." — Jan 31, 2019 09:47AM
“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― The Symposium
― The Symposium
“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”
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“She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.”
― The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
― The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
“Getting the little things right is what sets professionals apart from amateurs.”
― Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
― Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
“She dealt her pretty words like Blades --
How glittering they shone --
And every One unbared a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone --
She never deemed -- she hurt --
That -- is not Steel's Affair --
A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --
How ill the Creatures bear --
To Ache is human -- not polite --
The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom --
Just locking up -- to Die.”
―
How glittering they shone --
And every One unbared a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone --
She never deemed -- she hurt --
That -- is not Steel's Affair --
A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --
How ill the Creatures bear --
To Ache is human -- not polite --
The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom --
Just locking up -- to Die.”
―
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