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Quote by Victor Hugo
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much infl

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – 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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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. – Victor Hugo

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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire. – Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

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I will not die an unlived life…. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. – Dawna Markova

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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. – Bernard M. Baruch

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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. – Bertrand Russell

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