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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.
Voltaire
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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.
Voltaire
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Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
James Rollins
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.
Jenna Bush
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The English people think they are free they are greatly deceived they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful it is as though my book were dining with me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
Voltaire
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Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.
Jessica Savitch
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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
Voltaire
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Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.
Voltaire
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He lives well who is well hidden.
Rene Descartes
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For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.
Willow Bay
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History is the study of the world's crime
Voltaire
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Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Jessica Savitch
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My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.
Voltaire
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It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
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There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.
Rene Descartes
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Voltaire
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, civil as well as political.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire
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Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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