"The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system"

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Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

Eric Hobsbawm

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“I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.”

Source : Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company
“I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we areâ€¦Or we can decide for ourselves.”
“Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.”
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.”

Source : "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.
“If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy... But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”
“They're lying bastards. Jews were always lying bastards throughout their history. They're a filthy, dirty, disgusting, vile, criminal people.”

Source : Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. March 10, 1999.
“To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.”

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