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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
Rene Descartes
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.
Charles Kuralt
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Madame de Stael
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'I haven't used the veto pen very often since I've been in office,' Obama told NPR. 'Now, I suspect there are going to be some times where I've got to pull that pen out. And I'm going to defend gains that we've made in healthcare I'm going to defend gains that we've made on the environment and clean air and clean water.'
Byron York
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At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, Let them eat cake.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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One guy can't create a field, but you can get people thinking.
Paul Solman
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Jessica Savitch
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
Voltaire
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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
Voltaire
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
Madame de Stael
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I'm always surprised when I read a story that's reported from a great distance.
Jason Rezaian
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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire
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Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.
Voltaire
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The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems fell into disrepair. Fidel Castro's stubbornness, meanwhile, made political and economic change difficult in Cuba.
Tom Gjelten
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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
Denis Diderot
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It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
Rene Descartes
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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Voltaire
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Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft but we do not steal that which is given to us.
Voltaire
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My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
Jenna Bush
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There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them.
John Donvan
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A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .
James Rollins
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Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire
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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
Voltaire
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