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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 10-09-2024
“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”
Voltaire
“Let us read & let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 11-09-2024
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers & to the sound of trumpets.”
Voltaire
“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 11-09-2024
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RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 12-09-2024
“Love truth but pardon error.”
Voltaire
“I don't know where I am going but I am on my way.”
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 13-09-2024
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
Voltaire
“Doubt is an uncomfortable cindition but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
Voltaire
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 14-09-2024
“Now, my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.” (Voltaire on his death bed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce satan.”
Voltaire
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.”
T.S. Eliot
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 15-09-2024
“The difference between genius & stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein
“You have your way & I have mine. As for the right way & the only way,it does not exist.”
Friedrech Nietzsche
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 16-09-2024
“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
“Children are made readers in the lap of their parents.”
Emilie Bunchwald
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 17-09-2024
“When war breaks out & people say:'It won't last, it's too stupid'. And war is certainly stupid, but that doesn't prevent it from lasting.”
Albert Camus
“Politics is the only profession where you can lie, cheat & steal & still be respected.”
Mark Twain
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 18-09-2024
“Death is the physician of the poor.”
Irish saying
“A library is not a luxury but one of the neccesities of life.”
Henry Ward Beecher
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 19-09-2024
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
Aldous Huxley
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
Kurt Vonnegut
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 20-09-2024
“We're not going to change women to fit the world.We're going to change the world to fit women.”
Gloria Steinem
“In a librarywe are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper & leathern boxes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 21-09-2024
“A well read woman is a dangerous creature.”
Lisa Kleypas
“Think of those rivers of blood spilled by all those generals & emperors so that, in glory & triumph, they could become momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.”
Carl Sagan
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 22-09-2024
“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. Its just been too intelligent to come here.”
Arthur C Clarke
“Art should comfort the disturbed & disturb the comfortable.”
Banksy
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 23-09-2024
“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque & insulting.It is like advising a man who is starv\ing to eat less.”
Oscar Wilde
“Everyone thinks they have the best dog.And none of them are wrong.”
W.R. Purche
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 23-09-2024
Here's a picture of Mark Twain you may not have seen Lilith7:
https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsule/comments/1fmvx0i/mark_twain_and_his_longtime_friend_john_t_lewis/
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 23-09-2024
(23-09-2024, 01:41 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Here's a picture of Mark Twain you may not have seen Lilith7:
https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsule/comments/1fmvx0i/mark_twain_and_his_longtime_friend_john_t_lewis/
That's an interesting one, cheers for posting it.
RE: Sayings & Quotes - zqwerty - 23-09-2024
'Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.' - Denis Diderot
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=Denis+Diderot
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 24-09-2024
“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings & thoughts through language.”
James Earl Jones
“The medicine of the future will be music & sound.”
Edgar Cayce
RE: Sayings & Quotes - Lilith7 - 25-09-2024
“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting our high technology from weaponry to livingry.”
Buckminster Fuller
“No matter how little money & how few possessions you own, owning a dog makes you rich.”
Louis Sabin