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Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.



I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous."" And God granted it."

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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