Victor Hugo Quotes
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.
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There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.
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The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
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I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.
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There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
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Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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I hold that this must be said, for treaties only make sense when concluded by honor-loving peoples and honor-conscious governments. Germany wishes to establish honest relations with the peoples of neighboring countries. We have done this in the East, and I believe that not only Berlin but Warsaw as well will rejoice in the decontamination of the atmosphere brought about through our joint efforts.
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The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
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Time destroys everything.
