"What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness."

-- David Steindl-Rast

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“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
“In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.”
“As I grow older, I constantly learn more.”
“Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.”
“Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.”
“From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies...”

Source : Niall Ferguson (1998). “The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798-1848”, Viking Press
“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.72, Hachette UK
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

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