"The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization."

-- Jacques Ellul

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“I love salon days to pamper myself, do my nails.”
“I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.204, Penguin
“Gratitude is like love or fresh air - you can't get too much of it.”
“What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.”
“A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"”
“I don't believe that fashion should exclude people - I have always been about making it accessible to everyone.”
“In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.”

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