#eli

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

#degrades #love #pleasure #religion #seeker

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#birthday #bitter #creator #creatures #divides

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#banks #big #businesses #eliminate #face

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dangerous #fact #far #front #games

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#accept #eliminate #good #good thing #human

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#bring #him #into #limelight #ready

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#believing #car #kept #our #ourselves

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#robbed #writing #you #your

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. ↗