"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."

Voltaire on money
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"For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on age and aging
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"Common sense is not so common."

Voltaire on common sense
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"I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race."

Voltaire on service
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"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it."

Voltaire on character
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"Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures."

Voltaire on pleasure
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."

Baudrillard, Jean on language
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"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on judgment and judges
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"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on health   

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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on knowledge
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on income
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

Thompson, Hunter S. on twentieth century
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"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking
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"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

Thompson, Hunter S. on journalism and journalists
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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."

Douglas, William O. on justice
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"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

Zappa, Frank on government
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"The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free."

Thoreau, Henry David on freedom
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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on freedom
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"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."

Darrow, Clarence on freedom
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"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on freedom
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"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it."

Brecht, Bertolt on law and lawyers
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"The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]"

Shakespeare, William on law and lawyers
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"He who is brave is free."

Seneca on freedom
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"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on obedience
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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on god
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on absurdity
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"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience
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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on advice
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fights and fighting
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"Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."

Lewis, C. S. on eternity
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"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on greatness
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"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hygiene
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"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

Beecher, Henry Ward on forgiveness
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