Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye." —Shana Alexander

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess. And you don't find out 'til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along." —Terry Pratchett

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The force is with us all.

Just because you were good at something didn't mean it was a match with your personality or psyche.

Reality was only rendered when it was observed. Particles were everywhere, until someone peeked, and then they took a discrete location.

Maybe even God himself needed companionship, needed something outside of himself. Perhaps he was trapped in his own head, like I am, and finally found his salvation through the creation of the universe and sentient life.

To bend the entire world to his will. I'm not sure how this will manifest itself, openly or behind the scenes.

And now that Martin was involved, she would actually be meeting a man who had skyrocketed to the top of the business world and was the darling of the media, replacing Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg before him. Eben Martin was larger than life.

Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision was simple. You get thirty dollars or you get nothing. With this logic you would take any positive amount.

Knight wasn't lying," whispered Wexler. "You can type inside a Google search bar, and download files, but can't send anything else through cyberspace, including passwords.

First, and perhaps most importantly, despair and pessimism are in our very natures. We're wired to seek out bad news over good, and to always fear the worst. So bad news seizes our attention, while good news is often ignored.

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To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.

And most important to her, he possessed a great sense of humor,

That's in the actual patent. Really! You can find the patent and read it for yourself. All you have to do is Google its official USPTA number, which is US10144532B2.

I'm more inclined to believe in God because of our insignificance next to nature, rather than because we're so special.

the idea of six thousand innocents being annihilated in this way was devastating,

Survival of the fittest was harsh reality. In the animal kingdom it was eat or be eaten.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

If life could be reduced to the purely rational, to a solvable equation, there would be no mystery, no excitement. Life would become utterly predictable; a tedious movie that could never surprise. The

even her intuition and knowledge of human nature were far from perfect. She understood it in the aggregate, but in any given situation, who knew?

For the greater good?" screamed Ashley through her tears,

if you allow yourself to rise above a short-term perspective and super-charged rhetoric, the big picture is still looking better than ever before.