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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: lane rhymes with pain, but it also rhymes with urbane since the last syllable of urbane is stressed. Lane does not rhyme with methane.
James Fenton
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.
James Fenton
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My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.
Christiane Amanpour
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If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Christiane Amanpour
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
Madame de Stael
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It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
Charles Kuralt
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The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
Voltaire
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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
Voltaire
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Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.
Voltaire
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
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If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.
Madame de La Fayette
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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
Voltaire
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It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.
Jodi Kantor
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We must cultivate our own garden.
Voltaire
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Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and welfare programs that brought Cuba attention around the world.
Tom Gjelten
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A remarkably revealing portrait.
Byron York
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