Denis Diderot Quotes
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot
Quotes to Explore
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
Carl Safina
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F. L. Lucas
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey
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My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
Emily Weiss
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We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.
Peter Schiff
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Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast...
William Shakespeare
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
Malala Yousafzai
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot