"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."

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Voltaire

#Freedom Quotes #Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes

“You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.”
“The big winner last night in New Hampshire - Senator John Kerry. He won 39 percent of the vote, which is pretty good, and begs the question, why the long face?”
“Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.”
“So much magic lies beyond our fears.”
“I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.”
“Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.”
“My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings still seem to originate inside its cold walls. My muted sadness, my vague longing, my rare flickers of joy. They pool in the center of my chest and seep out of there, diluted and faint, but real.”
“It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.”

Source : The Medical Sciences in the German Universities Pt II

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