“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
Category: fear
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“Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.”
— Paul Robeson
Author: Paul Robeson
Category: travel
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“Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Category: religion
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“I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!”
— Busy Philipps
Author: Busy Philipps
Category: pet
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“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.”
— William Wordsworth
Author: William Wordsworth
Category: beauty
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