Baron d'Holbach Quotes
It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.
Baron d'Holbach
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
Kaley Cuoco
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
Carlos Fuentes
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
Pat Meehan
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
Brown Campbell
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
Carl Honore
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards Deming
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
Youssou N'Dour
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When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.
Jack Osbourne
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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
Orson Scott Card
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The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
Amos Oz
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is not a single criterion which can serve as the measure of the non-existent, of the non-human.
Anton Chekhov
