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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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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
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“The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.”
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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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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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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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