Denis Diderot Quotes
On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve.
Denis Diderot
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I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
Kamala Harris
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
Ramakrishna
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In playing Beethoven the violinist should be a medium. There is little that is personal or that can be reduced to ingratiating sounds, pleasing slides and so on. Everything is dictated by the significance, the weight, structure and direction of the notes and passages themselves.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
Al Gore
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I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.
Phil McGraw
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She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
Nicholas Sparks
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I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.
Jonathan Galassi
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There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.
Jane Austen
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Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.
Mindy Grossman
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On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve.
Denis Diderot
