"The first thing a fascist regime does is burn books. To not have them around would mean to make sure they're not written in the first place."

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Kimberly Peirce

#Book Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.”
“There's always a moment in any stand-up show I do where people are booing. They kinda boo a premise. And then I bail myself out with a joke. But it's like trying to do movies where there's a dramatic undertone.”
“We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.”
“Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.”
“I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.”
“What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.”
“Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.”
“What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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