"All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings."

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Source : Stephen J. Gendzier, Denis Diderot (1967). “Denis Diderot's The Encyclopedia: selections ; edited and translated by Stephen J. Genzier”

Denis Diderot

#Feelings Quotes #Exception Quotes

“Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.”
“The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.”
“A woman's pelvis is like an hourglass with the capacity to tell time. It both creates and shelters life. When the mother's diet is insufficient, nutrients are pulled from her own teeth and bone. Women are built to be selfless.”

Source : Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.67, Penguin
“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
“I've chosen to GROW, to EXPAND, to INCREASE and to become RICHER--because i want to BLESS the world more,”

Source : Bo Sanchez “8 Habbits of The Happy Millionaire”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.
“My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.”
“Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great.”

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