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Francois Arago

"A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and common sense now assign to it."

Source : François Arago, James Patrick MUIRHEAD (1839). “Historical Eloge of James Watt ... Translated ... with additional notes and an appendix, by James Patrick Muirhead”, p.149

Francois Arago

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“Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.”
“A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have lost itself in a world of fear. Freedom, joy and peace of mind are yours again, when you remember and re-connect to your unconditional self.”
“If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!”
“Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.”
“I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.”
“until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.”
“It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.”
“Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.”

Source : Norbert Elias (1982). “The history of manners”, Random House Inc

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