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Essais (French Edition) by Michel de Montaigne

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Certes, c’est un sujet merveilleusement vain, divers et ondoyant, que l’homme. Il est malaisé d’y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

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“While observational studies play a role in developing good science, they do not constitute good science in and of themselves. Because they rely on correlation without causation, they should not be used to make health claims.”
― Gabrielle Lyon, Forever Strong: A new, science-based strategy for aging well

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“Based on USDA data, the US per capita consumption (pounds per person per year) of beef from 1970 to 2020 fell an annual average of 34 percent with no health or environmental benefits. Yet we still blame red meat for nearly all health problems. This terrifies me as a physician.”
― Gabrielle Lyon, Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

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“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
― George Orwell, Inside the Whale: On Writers and Writing

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“There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

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“In the Vilnius ghetto, the news of German setbacks in the Soviet Union in the opening weeks of 1943 resulted in an upsurge of grim humour, as Herman Kruk recorded in his diary: A German asks a Jew to lend him 20 roubles. The Jew immediately takes the sum out of his pocket and gives it to him. The German wonders: ‘How can this be? You don’t know me at all, and you trust me with such a sum?’ I have the fullest trust in the Germans,’ answers the Jew. ‘You took Stalingrad and gave it back; you took Kharkov and gave it back. I’m sure that you will give me back my 20 roubles.’ What is the difference between General Rommel and a watch? A watch goes tick-tock and goes forward; Rommel goes tock-tick and goes backward … What city is the largest in the world? Stalingrad, because it took the Germans months to get from the outskirts to the centre.6”
― Prit Buttar, Centuries Will Not Suffice: A History of the Lithuanian Holocaust

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