Quotes on history

“Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

Ronald Reagan
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“She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.”

Gustave Flaubert
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“When the masses get involved in reasoning, everything is lost.”

Voltaire
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“Those who say that we’re in a time when there are not heroes, they just don’t know where to look.”

Ronald Reagan
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“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”

Voltaire
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“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

Voltaire
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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”

Voltaire
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“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”

Voltaire
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“I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.”

Voltaire
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“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

Voltaire
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