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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireVoltaire Common sense is not so common.
VoltaireVoltaire No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
VoltaireVoltaire History never repeats itself. Man always does.
VoltaireVoltaire One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
VoltaireVoltaire It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireVoltaire I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
VoltaireVoltaire What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
VoltaireVoltaire Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
VoltaireVoltaire It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
VoltaireVoltaire If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VoltaireVoltaire Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VoltaireVoltaire If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
VoltaireVoltaire We are rarely proud when we are alone.
VoltaireVoltaire I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VoltaireVoltaire The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
Christian Nestell BoveeChristian Nestell Bovee Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
Caroline MyssCaroline Myss I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy WarholAndy Warhol Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God’s life in us expresses itself as God’s life, not as human life trying to be godly.
Oswald ChambersOswald Chambers I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.
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