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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.

Denis Diderot

There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
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Anand Thakur
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian.
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Finding Forest Night Order Stranger Wander Yourself
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Action Allow Freedom Genius Interest Place
Only the bad man is alone.
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Alone Bad Man
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one’s books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.
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Compare Corner Forget Talent Temptation
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
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Gentle Himself Man Nature
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
Good music is very close to primitive language.
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Goodness Language Music Primitive
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Expectation Finding Myself Truth
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge, observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Combination Experiment Knowledge Principle Reflection Result
It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
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Love Rob
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
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

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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