Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VOLTAIREWhat is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
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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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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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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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If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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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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