Quotes with revere

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• It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  Charles Dickens
  English writer (1812 - 1870)
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• Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.

  Lao-Tzu
  Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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• Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

  Imamu Amiri Baraka
  African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• understanding
• unknowable
• understand
• asparagus
• ancestors
• happiness

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