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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.
Betty Rollin
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Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
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Only the bad man is alone.
Denis Diderot
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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Voltaire
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You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.
Chris Cuomo
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What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
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He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
Voltaire
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Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.
Voltaire
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As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has begun with accusations of plagiarism after Mr Trump's wife Melania gave a speech dotted with sentences that appeared to have been lifted from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008.
Mark Colvin
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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
Jessica Savitch
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire
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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.
Voltaire
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[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.
Jenna Bush
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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
James Fenton
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If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
Rene Descartes
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Matisse renovates rather than innovates.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.
Voltaire
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
Madame de Stael
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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire
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When ISIS last year called for the destruction of the Yazidi people, President Obama said that would constitute genocide and he ordered U.S. forces to keep it from happening. Human rights advocates say Christians now face a similar threat Nina Shea directs the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.
Tom Gjelten
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
Rene Descartes
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