"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

-- Charles de Gaulle

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“I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I felt like they really got me. There was one person who was sort of the one in my life that really got me.In general, I felt a little bit on the outside and not totally included. There was a period of time when we were moving around a lot. So I couldn't really hold on to a certain set of friends. And so that was a little bit difficult.”
“Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist.”
“It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1996). “Spinoza's Critique of Religion”, p.2, University of Chicago Press
“Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.”
“The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.”

Source : PETER FARB (1968). “MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION AS SHOWN BY THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM PRIMEVAL TIMES TO THE COMING OF THE INDUSTRIAL STATE”
“The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.”
“Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.”
“What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they operate. The next show I do and represent, I will be doing with them all over again.”

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