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Voltaire

"All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books."

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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

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"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

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"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

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"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

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"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

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"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."

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"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

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"Topica from Afar" discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities.Being written as you read."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
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"Fear could never make a virtue."
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