"Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences."

-- Albert Camus

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“Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.”
“I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.”
“Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.”
“I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.”
“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

Source : Jonathan Swift (1850). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.307
“One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any worthwhile purpose.”
“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”
“It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.”

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