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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.


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Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me."
"I was nine...
CASSANDRA CLARE So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell h...
MARTIN LUTHER Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you ...
ISAAC ASIMOV If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I look at that, I don't see that. Did he miss some throws that he should have made? Sure, and I...
BRAD CHILDRESS Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Daisy Bowman,” he said unevenly, “I’d spend eternity in hell for one hour with you.” “Is t...
LISA KLEYPAS Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Victor Santos pitched a terrific game. He pitched inside very effectively and it made his other pitc...
JIM TRACY You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, whic...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH You mean to tell me that you have made a human friend? It could be dangerous and I must urge it to e...
CHRIS DISANO DAVENPORT Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all i...
JEFFREY GITOMER For 20 years they have been asking me the same question, who is the greatest? Maradona or Pele? I re...
PELE Louie is an animator and illustrator by trade, and I can tell you that the pages he has been turning...
DAN VADO Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ...
MOTHER TERESA He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
MICKEY RIVERS He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
MICKEY RIVERS Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Had you come in here with only an action series, I would have passed. But when you said the wives, t...
ERIC HANEY Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that hav...
LEMONY SNICKET You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?
CASSANDRA CLARE I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of hi...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You haven't been in the darkness yet, have you? When I am gone you will see the ugly darkness. Becau...
SONIA MANZOOR You grow up quick when you're a kid from Queens, riding the subway by yourself, ... You see things. ...
JON DANIELS If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or b...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON How can you tell? That I like books, I mean.

The look on your face when you walked in, so...
CASSANDRA CLARE I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to b...
KRISTANNA LOKEN Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you ...
ARTHUR MILLER They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you w...
MALCOLM COWLEY And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, l...
DAVID CASSIDY Victor wouldn't be Victor if he told you what was in it. He assured me no steroid was involved.
TIM MONTGOMERY I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to b...
KRISTANNA LOKEN You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what ...
DENIS JOHNSON I know that Game 5 made a lasting impression on me. Vince must have been a high-jump champion somewh...
LAWRENCE FRANK I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON You're supposed to be made in His image, and yet you're all such ungrateful pieces of filth. You onl...
RON MARZ Dear 2600: OK I have some real serious stuff to tell but I need to be reassured that I can trust you...
EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN When your friend who died was still alive, did you ever tell him?”

“Tell him what?”...
REBECCA MCNUTT When a man loves you, you can tell by the way he touches you. His hands that have been lifting heavy...
JESSICA BASCOM Did you know," he said slowly, "That Victor Dashkov is sitting on your bed?"
"Yeah," I said. "I...
RICHELLE MEAD You don't know your father, do you?”
I shook my head. "No. All I know is he must have had wic...
RICHELLE MEAD I had an image that everyone (at Oracle) had been growing horns. But John expressed the importance o...
JOHN SCHIFF Aspire high but don’t gulp your own Kool-Aid. Find friends who will tell you when your baby is ugl...
LILY CHATTERJEE I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves ...
GEORGE CARLIN It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!),"...
OLGA ILYIN You can see it in his face. He is excited. I can tell. Last year he was down in the dumps. You can t...
MARK WALTERS From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule," he whispered. "That's very impressive. When he rules...
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ...
SIMONE WEIL Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must...
HARVEY MILK But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us."
"You are mortal; you age; you die...
CASSANDRA CLARE But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."
"Yes" I said, "they come b...
STEFAN ZWEIG When you suffer, you are being conformed to the image of Jesus. When you pray, you are being made ho...
ALLEN R. HUNT He struck his temples with his fists and screamed: 'Haven't you ever seen a goddam DC converter? You...
STEPHEN KING [An example: People want to be remembered for great things, such as contributing to humanity, he say...
DANE COOK When somebody on the outside fits with your inner image, you fall in love -- that is the meaning of ...
OSHO His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
JACK KEROUAC Maybe the president made a very good move when he asked you to leave your job. ... You get an F-minu...
GENE TAYLOR Now if he said to me, 'I want you [to] tell them the blood shall flow and you must attack them,' I w...
LYNNE STEWART Since childhood, I have been a fan of Spider Man because, according to me, he has the maximum humani...
TIGER SHROFF If you made a mistake on the field, he just chewed you out when he got back to the dugout. It made y...
ELROD HENDRICKS Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportuni...
ITZHAK PERLMAN He is smart, and he knows that it's very difficult to enter the stage, but it is more difficult to h...
GIULIANO FERRARA Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in you...
ROBERT COLLIER It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must ...
C. JOYBELL C. If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence,...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON I've made it clear that I have an open door policy - which means that the employee can tell me a...
JOHN RAMPTON God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
IRVING LAYTON But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heav...
C.S. LEWIS You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle...
DUSTY BAKER ―Self-righteousness,- Victor said. But when Sydney looked confused, he added, ―He heals. It‘s ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of u...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN You want to know what you mean to me, Kam?’ His lips trail down the curve of my neck.‘Every day ...
ELIZABETH MAY Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been muc...
DIET EMAN I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died
YOGI BERRA I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
THOMAS HARRIS Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. ...
ALAN COHEN You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he s...
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always s...
DEREK JETER And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the...
JODI PICOULT Captain,” she murmured.
“I think I’m in love with you.”
An eyebrow shot up. She c...
MARISSA MEYER You must constantly persist to imprint your brand image on the mind of your audience
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE You don’t have to believe in karma, (I didn’t). But you can bet your ass that karma will have be...
GARRY CRYSTAL When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style.
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE They've made a lot of bats now that when you hit the ball, the stinging in your hands, you can't tel...
KATIE IVANCICH His image is frozen in time. When you think of Dean, it's a very consistent look, a consistent brand...
MARK ROESLER

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
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VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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VICTOR HUGO To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
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VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
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VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
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VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
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VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
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VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
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VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
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VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
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VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
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VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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