Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Seeking to know is too often learning to doubt
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No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect
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We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.
-- Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres
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I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
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Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
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It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.
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My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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