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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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
Eden Robinson
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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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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
Carlos Fuentes
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I can't stand Bob Dylan.
Charlotte Church
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What sort of man is this, who over and over again, gave numerous details about His death, months before it occurred, and added to each such utterance that on the third day after His decease He would rise again from the dead - and DID RISE, as even the city of Jerusalem soon came to believe? No other founder of a great world religion (or a small one) ever made such statements, or ever came forth from the dead.
Wilbur Moorehead Smith
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Ira Sachs
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Michel Foucault
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On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve.
Denis Diderot
