#ge

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#best work #i #i do #love #stage

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#difficulties #english #gender #speakers #words

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#country #culture #english #find #french

There is a pride in speaking this language. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#pride #speaking

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#cultivated #entry #feel #feeling #french

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. ↗

— Max Planck

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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. ↗

— Max Planck

#any #been #discovery #gone #knowledge

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. ↗

— Robert Plant

#another #duration #effect #feeling #goodness

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. ↗

— Plato

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