Camille Flammarion (Nicolas Camille Flammarion) Quotes
It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.
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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.
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“That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.”
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English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
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High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.
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All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.
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The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.
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It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.
