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    Jarod Kintz
    “To Do Today, 1/17/08
    1. Sit and think
    2. Reach enlightenment
    3. Feed the cats”
    ― Jarod Kintz, I Should Have Renamed This
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    Voltaire
    “Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: books, reading
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
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  • #5
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Dare to think for yourself.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: freedom-of-thought
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  • #7
    Voltaire
    “God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: god, voltaire
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  • #8
    Voltaire
    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    ― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes
    tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict
    777 likes

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  • #9
    Voltaire
    “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: appreciation, gratitude
    648 likes

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  • #10
    Voltaire
    “It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #11
    Voltaire
    “Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #13
    Voltaire
    “No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: health-care, medicine
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    Voltaire
    “I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?'
    That is a hard question,' said Candide.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
    tags: candide, voltaire
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  • #17
    Voltaire
    “Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: money
    443 likes

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  • #18
    Voltaire
    “I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide and Other Tales
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  • #19
    Voltaire
    “May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies. ”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: argument, belief, monster, opinion, philosophy
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  • #21
    Voltaire
    “If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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  • #22
    Voltaire
    “To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: success
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  • #23
    Voltaire
    “One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: illusion, optimism, status-quo
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    Voltaire
    “It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: ignorance, knowledge, virginity, virtue
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    Voltaire
    “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”
    ― Voltaire
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    Voltaire
    “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #28
    Voltaire
    “When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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  • #29
    Voltaire
    “There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #30
    Voltaire
    “Paradise is where I am”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #31
    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    ― Vincent Van Gogh
    tags: art, inspiration, love, strength
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  • #32
    Lauren Oliver
    “You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.

    I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
    ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
    tags: courage, love, resistance, strength
    1070 likes



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