"A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry."

-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
“That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.”

Source : "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.
“O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.”

Source : Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch
“I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?”
“It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.”
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”

Source : Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.124, Fulcrum Publishing
“We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.”
“Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.”

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