Quotes 41 till 60 of 101.
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If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the 'conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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It's a question to ask ourselves if we're not mad. But who are the madmen, in God's name? Those who wonder about it, or the others? If we ever began to speak out loud, what would they do with us, tell me?
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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between people.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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