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The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not
from material things. I saw how much fun Africans had with their families and friends...they laughed
all the time. - Andrew Shue

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
You will want to change them when you realise that each thought creates according to its
own nature.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint." - Denis
Diderot
Quotes by Denis Diderot:
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a
product of desire. - Denis Diderot (AI and Consciousness?)
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature,
reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them;
experimentation verifies the result of that combination. -Denis Diderot
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. - Denis Diderot
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. - Denis Diderot
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order
always means getting other people under your control.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Good music is very close to primitive language. - Denis Diderot
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, selfpossessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy
man.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we
find bitter
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on
a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many
philosophers.
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not
when someone else tells me to.
Gaiety a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the
machine.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the
trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in
civilized societies.
Power acquired by violence is only an usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of
him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.