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My ideas are my whores.

Denis Diderot

Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
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Anand Thakur
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
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Anand Thakur
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
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Delight Move Surprise Yourself
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
How easy it is to tell tales!
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Easy Story
I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
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Feeling Judgement Thinking
My ideas are my whores.
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Ideas One Liner Whore
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
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Association Catch Ourselves Vice
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 true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
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Anand Thakur
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others.
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Heart Known Wisdom
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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Enjoyment Heaven Man Nature Reason Receive
I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.
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Desire Hope Immortal Myself
Isn’t it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
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Better Chance Goodness Man

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