“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
― More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
― More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
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“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared to use terror, a monopoly on information, and a planned economy. By those criteria, the Soviet and Nazi regimes were not the only totalitarian states. Others—Mao’s China, for example—qualified too.”
― Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
― Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
“You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.”
― The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
― The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
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