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Quote by Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. – Victor Hugo

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God
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Victor Hugo
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul. – Victor Hugo

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Love
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Victor Hugo
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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Art
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Victor Hugo
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy. – Aristotle

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Time

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. – Charlie Chaplin

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Time

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because theyre not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates

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Time

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, its time for me to move away from the game. – Michael Jordan

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Time

Random Quotes

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole

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Art

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care. – Jim Fowler

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Attitude

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. – Herbert Hoover

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Science

I also think we need to maintain distinctions – the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. – John Polkinghorne

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Science