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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good People Will Good People Bad Things Analysis Final Respond Bad Some Something Longer How Questions Itself Very Intend Different Happen Happened Asking Now Why Things Things Happen

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo

Age Happy Grace Old Wrinkles Old Age Adorable Joined Dawn Unspeakable

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. Voltaire

Love Nature Love Is Imagination Furnished Canvas

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

Life Change Before Changes Melancholy Enter Ourselves Must Part Most Another Leave Die Behind Us Even

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. Andre Maurois

Conversation Happy Marriage Long Too Seems Always Short Which Happy Marriage

Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory Most Belongs

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes

Life Truth You Doubt Once Possible Would Would-Be All Things Seeker Least Real As Far As After Far Your Things Necessary

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. Rene Descartes

Difficulty Resolve Feasible Divide Parts Many Each Necessary

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon Bonaparte

Thousand Bayonets Feared More Hostile Than Newspapers Four

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. Albert Camus

Life Joy Living Defeat Our More Only Gives Bottom Absurdity Because Very Maybe The Only Thing Which Us Thing Basically

Women are nothing but machines for producing children. Napoleon Bonaparte

Women Nothing Machines Women Are Children Producing

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. Napoleon Bonaparte

Fear Men Only Forces Interest Unite Two

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. Paul Valery

War People Profit Other Massacre Know Who Each

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes

Good Conversation Reading Past Minds Books Finest Like Centuries

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.' Stephane Hessel

You Man Woman Yourself People Human Being Unhappy Action Furious Say Must Some Indignation Outrage Put Look Around Makes Always Real Real Human Up Real Man Human Being Want Cannot Which Then Engage Stand Stand Up Tolerate Things

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire

Good Patriotism Enemy Rest Become Must Patriot Mankind

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. Honore de Balzac

Love Woman Ugly Stupid Nobody She Because Intelligent Handsome Loves

Politeness is the flower of humanity. Joseph Joubert

Humanity Flower Politeness

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing Difficult Able More Than Precious Decide Therefore

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