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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

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Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value--zero.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/allport/allport10.html

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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

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Men will not be free until the last King is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

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She was a great man whose only fault was in being a woman.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Commenting on scientist Emilie du Chatelet

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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

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