"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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"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
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"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
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