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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Denis Diderot

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Evil Genius World
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.
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Anand Thakur
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Civilization Inflict Kind Man Society Woman
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Bad Confusion Different Follow Reveal Truth
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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Arouse Patriot Society
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
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Admire Distance Greatness Promote
The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
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Absurd Best Lover People
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one’s fatherland, which is perishable?
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Enlightenment Father Greatness Oneself Perish Save
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
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Comedy Oneself Play World
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
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Ignorance Prejudice Remote Truth
I am wholly yours – you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.
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Each Other Life Trouble Yourself
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Adjust Change Force Need Point View

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