"The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life."

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Source : Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

Giordano Bruno

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“It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”

Source : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.
“In a sense these are questions that most people ask themselves to some extent. They become philosophical when asked with a persistence and rigour that pushes past conventional or evasive answers. It's nothing to do with acquiring a technical facility in an academic discipline.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
“When we come to the Babylonian Gemara, we are dealing with what most people understand when they speak or write of the Talmud. Its birthplace, Babylonia, was an autonomous Jewish centre for a longer period than any other land; namely, from soon after 586 before the Christian era to the year 1040 after the Christian era - 1626 years.”

Source : Isidore Epstein, Joseph Herman Hertz (1935). “The Babylonian Talmud ...: Baba Kamma”
“When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.”
“I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.”

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