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I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world. ↗

— George Voinovich

#bullies #children #destruction #everyday #fear

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #date #divorce #however #i

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ↗

— Voltaire

#eating #god #had #made #more

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beware #finds #hard #himself #learn

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#believe #creed #everlasting #gave #god

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#any #background #college #come #european

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#divine #relics #something #treasured

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#eating #emotional #escape #gluttony #sign

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#go #i #learn #school #some

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time. ↗

— Andy Wachowski

#buddhism #fascinated #interesting #long #long time