"Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born."

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Source : David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.201, A&C Black

David Foenkinos

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“Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.539
“My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.31
“Your mind is your only judge of truth-and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.”
“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
“The people who have wealth and the people who earn money are going to be a little reluctant to part with it, particularly if they earned it fair and square. So, what has to happen is that there has to be a drumming in of a critique that causes shame, a sense of look, my country and even I am in possession of stolen goods you might say and therefore, the government becomes the instrument to get some of those back.”
“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”
“I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.”

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