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Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher, writer, and composer, considered one of the most important figures of the Enlightenment. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent literature, political, and social theories. more

“What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.”

Source: One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional

“Love is meant to be an adventure!!”

Love Is Adventure Meant To Be

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Remember to let her into your heart.”

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Author:John Lennon

“She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.”

Children Law Fall

Author:Bob Dylan

“My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.”

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Book:Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”

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Author:Mark Z. Danielewski

“A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.”

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Book:Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider

Source: Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider

Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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