It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire

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But was that why Negroes were poor, because they were dancers, jazzers, clowns? . . . The other way round would be better: dancers because of their poverty; singers because they suffered; laughing all the time because they must forget.... It’s more like that, thought Sandy. ― Langston Hughes,

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. - Voltaire

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said. - Voltaire

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. - Voltaire

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Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

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There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

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