Albert Camus Quotes
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
Albert Camus
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
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Natasha Trethewey
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Laila Robins
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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Hillary Clinton
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Ambrose Bierce
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
Gary Rossington
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
Kailash Satyarthi
We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
Eknath Easwaran
If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
John Stuart Mill
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
Albert Camus
