Jacques LeBlanc quotes

“I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.”
-- Jacques LeBlanc

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“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

“All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.”

“It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.”

“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

“Every generation tailors history to its taste.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

“I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?”

Source : "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autobots" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.

“Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.”

“TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.372, ReadHowYouWant.com