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Correspondent Inspirational Quotes (1588)

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It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
Rene Descartes
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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.
Voltaire
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There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
Peter Jennings
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The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
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We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
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He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
Voltaire
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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Madame de Stael
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
Madame de Stael
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
Madame de Stael
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[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.
Betty Rollin
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
Madame de Stael
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There are no sects in geometry.
Voltaire
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Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
Voltaire
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The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire
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Better is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
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Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.
Tom Gjelten
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Madame de Stael
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
Rene Descartes
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I think I know a lot about campaigns.
Jenna Bush
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