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All mens miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet roo

All mens miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. – Blaise Pascal

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. – Blaise Pascal

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Vanity
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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! – Blaise Pascal

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Religion
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. – Henrik Ibsen

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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. – Janis Joplin

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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. – Lajos Kossuth

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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character… by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. – Carl Linnaeus, 1788

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