"Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history."

-- David Douglass

#Consensus Quotes

“I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.”
“The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.”
“J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.”
“Below -60Â° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.”
“Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.”
“It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.”
“Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.”

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