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Quote by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.”

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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, was a prominent French statesman, economist, and philosopher. He played a significant role in the Enlightenment in 18th-century France, known for his contributions to economic liberalism. more

“If the first inward thought is not warded off, it will generate a desire, then the desire will generate a wish, and the wish will generate an intention, and the intention will generate the action, and the action will result in ruin and divine wrath. So evil must be cut off at its root, which is when it is simply a thought that crosses the mind, from which all the other things follow on.”

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Author:Al-Ghazali

“How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body."”

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Author:Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.”

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Author:Franz Kafka

“It only 'doesn't work out' if you quit. Never, ever quit!”

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Author:Mike Dooley

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