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Pierre Bayle Quotes

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: November 18, 1647 - December 28, 1706

Topics

Opinion Think Generation Down Pure

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

John C. Maxwell

Experience Pain Loss Force

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

John H. Johnson

Life Work Hard Work Education Mother

The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.

People Three Meet Always Wanted Fry

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Age Time Poetry Sex Lens Race

I was being singled out as the best in the class at this, that and the other, nearly always to do with art. And then I was a very good swimmer from a very early age, and once again the best in the class, and when I was about five or six, I was the best in the school.

Good Age Art Best School Early

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

Women Music Know Said Everyone Us

Comfort is key for me. I'm a bigger guy, so whatever fits is nice, too.

Me Key Comfort Nice Whatever Bigger

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Long You Ahead Try Never Him

When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book.

Book Think Process American You

The more you can create a structure by which people live in a fantastical situation and by which they will act, and the more you lay that out for the audience, the more they will feel at home in it.

Home Live People Feel You Create

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Society Rich Poor Left Make Forces

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Christina Romer

Details Talk More Abstract Painful

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