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“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”

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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

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”

Mean Ideas Force Class Subjects Expression Materials Intellectual Ideals Productions Dominant Ruling Epoch

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”

Ifs Way Want Parent Mistake

Book:Commencement

Source: Commencement

“Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.”

Remember Jesus Religious Atheism Gay Shame Atheist Agnostic Orphan There Is No God There Being No God

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?”