"Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings."

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Edmond de Goncourt

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“I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.”
“Evolution is cleverer than you are.”
“The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.”
“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”
“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.”

Source : "Money: Whence it came, where it went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 15, 29, 1975.
“With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.”
“I guess that my activities inspire people and that I offer opportunities without realising what is going to happen next.”
“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”

Source : C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.97, House of Stratus

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