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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT

One Liner Yourself
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Command Force Obedience Power Violence
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
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Oneself Path Step
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
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Greatness Passion Soul
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
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Destroy Doctor Preserve Success Work
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.
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Anand Thakur
Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
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Evil Goodness High Master Writing
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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Feeling Instrument Memories Object Surround
It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.
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Difficult God Home Raining
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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Control Order People Yourself

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