"Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions."

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Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

George Iles

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“In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.”
“The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.”
“I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.”
“Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.”

Source : Maurice Druon (1964). “The memoirs of Zeus”
“There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.”
“It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. . . Every time I have gone up in an aeroplane and looked down have realized I was free of the ground, I have had the consciousness of a new discovery. "I see:" I have thought, "This was the idea. And now I understand everything."”
“It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?”
“So it's like your brain has a large filing cabinet and it's opening up each drawer and it's taking in various images and memories from the day, consolidating what it needs to and puts in whatever file. And then if there's something that doesn't fit in any of the files and doesn't really belong, you'll forget about it. So it's a way of really getting a succinct way of storing things in your brain.”

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