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Fascinating excursion through twenty centuries of Paris history, following a course of Metro stops. The author, a French comedian, is an engaging storyteller who knows his subject well. Map insets helpfully aid the reader to identify dozens of points
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“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. ”
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“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
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“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”
― Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
― Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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