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“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
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It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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