Re: notes / comments
Saturday, February 17, 2007
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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To speak of Genocide recognition as frequently, obsessively, and endlessly as we do is to imply that during more than two thousand years of history our most noteworthy achievement has been allowing ourselves to be butchered like sheep.
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Claude Bernard: “No one has contributed more to science than frogs.”
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In biographies of writers, the sentence that sooner or later pops up is “he read everything he could get his hands on.”
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Major decisions are based on countless little ones that make the major ones inevitable.
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If you plan to make an omelet, break eggs not windows and heads.
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Alain: “It is said that the next generations will be harder to govern. I certainly hope so.”
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Mathurin Regnier: “A wealthy villain is worth more than a poor gentleman.”
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I question the validity of all my past beliefs and no doubt in the future I will question the validity of my present beliefs of which I have none.
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Bertolt Brecht: “I don’t trust him. We are friends.”
Saturday, February 17, 2007
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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To speak of Genocide recognition as frequently, obsessively, and endlessly as we do is to imply that during more than two thousand years of history our most noteworthy achievement has been allowing ourselves to be butchered like sheep.
*
Claude Bernard: “No one has contributed more to science than frogs.”
*
In biographies of writers, the sentence that sooner or later pops up is “he read everything he could get his hands on.”
*
Major decisions are based on countless little ones that make the major ones inevitable.
*
If you plan to make an omelet, break eggs not windows and heads.
*
Alain: “It is said that the next generations will be harder to govern. I certainly hope so.”
*
Mathurin Regnier: “A wealthy villain is worth more than a poor gentleman.”
*
I question the validity of all my past beliefs and no doubt in the future I will question the validity of my present beliefs of which I have none.
*
Bertolt Brecht: “I don’t trust him. We are friends.”
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