Lunderby Livestock Quotes

#1. The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck; and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Alexander Pushkin

#3. The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter ... we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

James Jeans

#4. When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Anthony Trollope

#5. The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.

Gabrielle Zevin

#6. The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

Ben Aaronovitch