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When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.

Denis Diderot

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
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
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
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
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
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Step Truth
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
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Artist Essential Moral Perspective Quality
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.
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Blood God Myself Sin
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
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
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Man Philosophy Poster Religious
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
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Divorce Improvement Marriage Partner Population Possible
The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre
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Anand Thakur
In order to get as much fame as one’s father one has to much more able than he.
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Fame Father Himself Order
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Creative Experiment Genius Nature Observation
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
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Existence Monster Survive

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