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Enlightening Quote by Voltaire

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“True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.”

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

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History is the study of the world's crime

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude.

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Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

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When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression,…

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

Henry David Thoreau

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I try to do what I call the three E's - educate, entertain, and enlighten. If you don't entertain, no one will show up.…

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Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic of…

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It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

Kenneth Goldsmith

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We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well…

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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

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Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

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