Victor Hugo Quotes

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

Victor Hugo

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• I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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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.

  

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

  

  Jasper Fforde
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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.

  

  Muhammad Ali
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• 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
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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?

  

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

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
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  • 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

• The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • War
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• As the government is, such will be the man.

  

  Plato
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• I am writing this during my free . . . oops! un-assigned period, at the end of my first day of teaching. So far, I have taught nothing — but I have learned a great deal. To wit: We have to punch a time clock and abide by the Rules. We must make sure our students likewise abide, and that they sign the time sheet whenever they leave or reenter a room. We have keys but no locks (except in lavatories), blackboards but no chalk, students but no seats, teachers but no time to teach. The library is closed to the students.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Learned

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

  

  Victor Hugo
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  • Genuflection