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"When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself."
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"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."
Friendship
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
Diplomacy
"Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back."
Church
"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."
Time
"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt."
Perception
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
Love
"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
Imagination
"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."
Life
"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"
Friendship
"Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last."
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"We are not alone!Everything has been orchestrated.If you think that the meteor that killed of the dinosaurs was natural. Think again!What use would a world of greed be if we had to worry about getting eaten by dinosaurs every minute of the day?It wouldn't be good for the economy, now would it?Think about it!"
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"For the modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority. Say that a thing is so, according to the Pope or the Bible, and it will be dismissed as a superstition without examination. But preface your remark merely with "they say" or "don't you know that?" or try (and fail) to rememver the name of some professor mentioned in some newspaper; and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word you say."
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"Round numbers are always false."
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"Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft."
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"The believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity."
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"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
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"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
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"There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer."
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"Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child."
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