"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."

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Source : 1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

Gertrude Stein

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“I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves.”

Source : "On Bullshit". Book by Harry Frankfurt, 2005.
“Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.”
“There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.”
“Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.577, Harvard University Press
“It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.”

Source : "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.
“I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe...”

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