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.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Independent
  • Leader

• 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.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
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• The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.

  

  Jasper Fforde
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  • Schitt

• 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.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Life is
  • Accidents
  • Crashes

• I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Bed

• There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Enough
  • Absurd

• 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?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Light
  • Wind
  • Burn

• Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Idea

• 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.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Faith
  • Religion
  • Attitude

• In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Belief

• All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

  

  John Stuart Blackie
  • God
  • Law
  • Fairs

• Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

  

  Ray Liotta
  • Starting
  • Putting
  • Later

• Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

  

  Victor Hugo
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