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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.
Voltaire
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I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.
Jason Rezaian
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The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.
Byron York
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Madame de Stael
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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Jessica Savitch
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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot
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A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Voltaire
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Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
James Rollins
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
Denis Diderot
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Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.
Christiane Amanpour
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
Voltaire
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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Denis Diderot
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We cannot wish for that we know not.
Voltaire
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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
Voltaire
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
Charles Kuralt
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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
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Every artists wants to be applauded
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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