Denis Diderot Quotes
Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Denis Diderot
Quotes to Explore
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Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.
Arthur Eddington
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Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
Atifete Jahjaga
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I wish I could do some really weird stuff for you guys, you know?
Jim Carrey
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I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.
Kim Carnes
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
Brian Jacques
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Aminatta Forna
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First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.
N. Katherine Hayles
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Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.
Charles Dickens
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My dad worked - f - k if I know - seven jobs? He painted a house. He would deliver toilets. He drove a cab, delivered pizzas. Whatever he could do, he did.
Mila Kunis
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Aristotle
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I see no reason to use offensive tools unless you're defending the country or in a state of war, or you want to achieve some really important thing for the good of the nation and others.
Keith B. Alexander
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Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.
Denis Diderot
