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“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”

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Voltaire, a French Enlightenment philosopher, writer, and thinker, was born on November 21, 1694, and died on May 30, 1778. He had a profound impact on philosophy, literature, and science in France and Europe with his sharp wit and critical spirit. more

“...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.”

People World Children Made Ideas Body Pain Memories Loss Impossible Bird Senses Rhythm Parks Limbs Ghetto Phantoms Fathom Amputation Greenery Warsaw Phantom Limbs

Author:Diane Ackerman

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”

Way Writing Persons Long Hands Truth Left Truth Is Assuming Fingers Ink Emerging Left Hand

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.”

Ifs Doe Matter Certain Choices Waiting Attitude Morning Laughing Doors Circumstances Window Pursuit Positive Attitude Joyful Pursuit Of Happiness

Book:Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life

Source: Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

Voice Numbers Humorous Jeeves Wrong Number

Book:The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

Source: The World of Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

“Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?”

Dog Ears Dachshunds

Book:How Right You Are, Jeeves

Source: How Right You Are, Jeeves

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

Thinking Happiness Pride Proud Monte Cristo

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Source: ALEXANDRE DUMAS Ultimate Collection: 40+ Titles Including The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels, Adventure Classics, True Crime Stories & Biography (Queen Margot, The Black Tulip, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit…)

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