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Voltaire Quotes

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

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Mother Daughter Religion Wise Long

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

Good Great Money People Like Very

I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.

Me Cool Television See Saw Just

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

Voice Doing You Everyone Little Got

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

John O. Brennan

Past Republican Democrat Five Nor

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

Maxwell Anderson

Heart Art Practice Proud You Person

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

You Traveled Everything Where Did

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.

Stephen Hawking

Stars Present Universe Hand Size

I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose.

Steven Van Zandt

Day Purpose Wake Up Every Day Write

I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.

Great Me Doing You Soccer Play

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

Michael Kinsley

Government You House Out Property

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Feel You I Can Laundry Go Nothing

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

Hair Book Loss Falling Out Buy

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