Quote by Jean Rostand
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it wont one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. – Jean Rostand

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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. – Jean Rostand

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. – Jean Baudrillard

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. – Lucretius

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If you suspect a man, dont employ him, and if you employ him, dont suspect him. – Chinese Proverb

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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. – Roger Ascham

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The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. – Condoleezza Rice

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They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country. – Tom Tancredo

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