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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
Betty Rollin
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
Christiane Amanpour
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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
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I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
James Rollins
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A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
Voltaire
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I learn life from the poets.
Madame de Stael
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Voltaire
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This is no time to be making new enemies.
Voltaire
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Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
Jodi Kantor
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Voltaire
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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
Madame de Stael
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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
Peter Jennings
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Now is not the time for making new enemies.
Voltaire
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There's no job that's more rewarding than being with kids. I adore it.
Jenna Bush
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Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
Denis Diderot
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael
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It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
Denis Diderot
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The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.
Voltaire
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.
Voltaire
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If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
Peter Jennings
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