"Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him."

-- Jean de La Fontaine

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“That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.”
“it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.”
“If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.”
“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
“All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.”

Source : "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.
“The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Eve never were real people the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Eve there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin there is no need of salvation. If there is no need of salvation there is no need of a Savior. And I submit that puts Jesus, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed. I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity.”

Source : "Why evolution hurts the church" by David Catchpoole, creation.com. October 26, 2014.
“If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.”
“I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.”

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