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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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We are born, so to speak, twice over born into existence, and born into life born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.
Jason Rezaian
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Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire
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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.
Voltaire
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God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.
Voltaire
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
Denis Diderot
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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
Voltaire
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It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.
Voltaire
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Denis Diderot
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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
Madame de Stael
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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch
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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
Charles Kuralt
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
Voltaire
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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
Rene Descartes
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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
Charles Kuralt
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think my mind only works with my legs.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.
Jenna Bush
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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Voltaire
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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
Voltaire
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
James Fenton
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
Denis Diderot
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