#ran

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#arts #branch #comprehension #difficult #errors

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#dwell #epitome #get #golf #golf course

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. ↗

— Chuck D.

#aim #always #black #even #everyone

The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#creed #democratic #democratic party #every #immigrants

Credit is a promise to deliver money. It will produce GDP but you'll create credit... So you reach a certain point that that you can't do that anymore... There are choices. And how do we best support, apportion the money? How much is going to be transferred? ↗

— Ray Dalio

#best #certain #certain point #choices #create

My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block. ↗

— Alan Davies

#corner #favourite #go #i #mention

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. ↗

— Bette Davis

#generation #i #marlon #marlon brando #my generation

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France. ↗

— Christine Lagarde

#criticized #france #heavily #i #praised

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#between #secrecy #speak #stadium #thus

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #british #budget #delivered #engineering