"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."

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Source : Pierre Bayle, Richard Henry Popkin, Craig Brush (1991). “Historical and Critical Dictionary: Selections”, p.147, Hackett Publishing

Pierre Bayle

#Race Quotes #Crime Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished...I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation on it.”
“My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.”
“Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none.”
“The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.”
“You are what you eat.....I've eaten so many fat ***** you wouldn't believe”
“We don't know what we think until we see what we say.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.77, Basic Books
“I was interested in seeing how to branch out and sort of use the Internet more as a way of making and promoting movies. There's no real difference in making it successful - it's all down to the dedication of the people involved to make it a success.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.”

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