Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

“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

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“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

[zqwerty]

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[Lilith7]

“Love truth but pardon error.”
Voltaire

“I don't know where I am going but I am on my way.”
Voltaire

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“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

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“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

[Lilith7]

“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

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“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

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“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

[Lilith7]

“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

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“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

[Lilith7]

“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

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“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

[Lilith7]

“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

[Lilith7]

“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

[zqwerty]

Here's a picture of Mark Twain you may not have seen Lilith7:

https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsu...n_t_lewis/

[Lilith7]

Here's a picture of Mark Twain you may not have seen Lilith7:

https://old.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsu...n_t_lewis/

That's an interesting one, cheers for posting it.

[zqwerty]

'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=fir...is+Diderot

[Lilith7]

“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

[Lilith7]

“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