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Voltaire Quotes

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live Men Die Satire Lies Eulogy

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

Think I Think Ourselves Mysteries

The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.

Competition Looking Free Political

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

Women Dinner Saying Think Comedy

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

Health Service Medical Think First

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Strength Think Care Weakness Write

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Positive Expansion Up Against Market

I didn't wait around for my parents' opinion about my venture out into contemporary music.

Music Parents Wait Opinion Out

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Bad Certainty Revelation Things Only

The people I still talk to are some of the old Galaxy players all over the place. That's a bond that's pretty special.

People Bond Place Talk Galaxy Over

The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.

Family Great Royal Always Been

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

People Think Doing More Over Days

My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

Think Portrait Want Never Hong Kong

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