Quote by Victor Hugo
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diam

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. – Victor Hugo

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Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. – Jules Verne

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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive. – Tony Campolo

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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth

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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. – Elbert Hubbard

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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. – Hu Shih

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The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. – Ayn Rand

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We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. – Jean Guitton

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