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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

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
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
Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
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See Theory World
The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.
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Best Doctor Finding Oneself Run
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Machine Order Ordinary Quality
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
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
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Hands King Priest
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
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Beautiful Color Disturb Rainbow
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Poetry Vast Wild
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
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Butterfly Color Pen Wings Woman
You have to make it happen.
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One Liner Yourself
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.
DENIS DIDEROT

Anand Thakur

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

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