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“It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.”
―Kurt Vonnegut

“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
―Luigi Pirandello

“Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.”
―Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source/Notes:
Thoughts on Different Subjects, Volume 2 (1768), p. 125

“A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.”
―Tacitus

“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
―Mao Tse-Tung

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”
―Noam Chomsky

Source/Notes:
Turning the Tide, 1985

“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.”
―Paulo Coelho

“Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.”
―François-René de Chateaubriand

Source/Notes:
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) selected and compiled by James Wood

“The praises of enemies are always to be suspected. A man of honor will not permit himself to be flattered by them, except when they are given after the cessation of hostilities.”
―Napoleon Bonaparte

Source/Notes:
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“By far the best proof is experience.”
―Francis Bacon

“A good memory is needed after one has lied.”
―Pierre Corneille

Source/Notes:
Variation: It takes a good memory to keep up a lie. Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)

“The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing.”
―Albert Einstein

“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.”
―Gaston Bachelard

Source/Notes:
The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon, ch. 1 - Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.”
―Marcel Proust

“The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.”
―Honore de Balzac

“We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”
―Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.”
―Jules Renard

Source/Notes:
In French: "Un rhume de cerveau fait bien plus souffrir qu'une idée." From: "Jules Renard Journal, 1887-1910" (Gallimard, 1982), p. 228

“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
―Carl Sagan

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