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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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