"In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises."

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Source : Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Patrick Riley (1990). “Bossuet: Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

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“The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.”
“I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.”

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“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
“Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.”

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“When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.”

Source : David Baldacci (2010). “True Blue”, p.239, Pan Macmillan
“I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.”

Source : "Fictional character: Martin Riggs". "Lethal Weapon", www.imdb.com. 1987.
“It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.”
“The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.”

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