Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes … - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses. . . The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

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There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

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