"There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.”
“One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
“I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.”
“Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!”
“The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.”
“The images of things are not the things in themselves.”
“I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.”
“Even if the gods did exist, the Epicureans argued, they didn't care about us. Rather, everything comes from nature, and all that really exists are atoms and void, moving and congregating.”

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