Quote by Rene Descartes
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to fo

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. – Rene Descartes

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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – Rene Descartes

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. – Rene Descartes

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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. Its hard to find those men. – Jessica Simpson

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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. – Benito Mussolini

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Nothing external to you has any power over you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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