You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what...
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Roland Barthes
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell
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Philip Henry Sheridan
Be a worthy worker and work will come.
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Amit Kalantri
Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating...
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Vera Nazarian
Love, they said, burns youand builds you. But with you, there’s no ash. Just light.
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Kamand Kojouri
More Quotes By Charles De Secondat
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
