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Quote by Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable convent

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot

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There are things I cant force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. – Denis Diderot

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Change
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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Senses
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot

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Order
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Other Quotes from
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. – Herbert Read

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Nature

Human nature is above all things lazy. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Nature

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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Nature

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

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Nature

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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times…More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really arent. – Al Bauman

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Results

Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward. – Claudius

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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. – Barbara de Angelis

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Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. Youre for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax hikes pass their lips. – Ann Coulter

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Government