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98 quotes (Page 2 of 4 pages)How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!
Nationalities and Nationalism
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Freedom of Speech
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I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
Service
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I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
Doctors
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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Lies and Lying
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I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.
Law and Lawyers
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
God
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If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Adventure
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Enemies
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In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
News
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In this country it's a good thing to kill an admiral now and then to encourage the others.
Army and Navy
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
Poetry and Poets
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Government
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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Fashion
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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
Books - Reading
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Freedom
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Self-love
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It is only through timidity that states are lost.
Timidity
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Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
Questions
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Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.
Theory
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Love
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Marriage
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Friends and Friendship
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Men argue, nature acts.
Argument
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun