If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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The more a man knows, the less he talks.
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The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
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When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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