"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."
-Voltaire
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
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"There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."
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"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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