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Mary’s Quotes

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: afterlife, god, heaven, judgement, talent

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“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

tags: dissent, freedom-of-thought, heresy

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“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: conformism, disregard, ignorance, innovation, persecution, reformers, trailblazers

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“Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?”
― Voltaire

tags: contant-d-orval, volume

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“For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?”
― Voltaire, Candide and Other Stories

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