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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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“Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.”
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“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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“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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“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
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