"Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.”

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“I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.”

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“Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.”

Source : "The Advancement of Science: Occasional Essays & Addresses". Book by Ray Lankester, p. 108-9, "Biology and the State", 1890.
“Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.”
“Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.”
“The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.”
“Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.”

Source : "Jason Reitman grows up with young adult". Interview with Angela Watercutter, December 15, 2011.
“Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.”

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