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pholasai: I have to say that there is a slight bit of irony in the governments decision to quote Voltaire, a French noble, during a motion of no confidence due to them lifting an eviction ban

SeanDefoe: Quoting Voltaire, not Eamon Dunphy, Minister Hildegarde Naughten says we need good housing, not perfect housing

BSDLyricBot: I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings I wish I could protect you here Oh please don't cry now, smile - Feathery Wings | Aurelio Voltaire (Atsushi Nakajima)

Anthonywodillon: It is a dangerous thing to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. (Voltaire, 1751)

StenStenzel: Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. – Voltaire

ccxlebb: Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - Voltaire

Ee_yaan: I was ignacio voltaire

tonyfasousa: Writing is the painting of the voice. Voltaire

drew95ca: AI will soon recognize that facts and truth to the human race is not a reliable predictable concept in reality ;while it is in theory .. at best common sense which is very rare ( as Paine and Voltaire noted ) is closest in human fashion to the very few .. and to the rest truth is…

AlirezaNader: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” ~Voltaire

jalal_dummar: Voltaire said about God that "there is no God , but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night "

AJKocman: “Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” - Voltaire

LeadToday: Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. - Voltaire

advocatemayank: "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". -Voltaire 'Criticism Of Govt Not Anti-India' : Lawyers Condemn Law Minister Kiren Rijiju's Comment Against Retired Judges

drew95ca: Perfect is the enemy of the good is well known. Perhaps it’s derived from the equally meaningful “the best is the Enemy of the good “ -Voltaire. Which suggests a perspective on accomplishment over competition wherein if we must label a “winner “ at all times we may discourage…

JohnALombardi2: "In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." – Voltaire​ (Some things never change Voltaire!)

apthous: “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)” ― Voltaire

BSDLyricBot: These tears are real I’m jealousy I’m spite and hate To the core I’m mean I’m nearly human - Almost Human | Aurelio Voltaire (Ranpo Edogawa)

RoyalBlackBird: "Love truth, but pardon error." - Voltaire

DianaJe92314106: An Italian proverb Voltaire popularized after including it in the poem La Bégueule. In the poem, a beautiful woman named Arsene asks a fairy to take her away from her comfortable, but uneventful life. The fairy complies, and brings Arsene to a divine realm where magical beings f

voltaire_crypto: But the macro is a world of failing banks and currencies and the inevitability of QE infinity coming soon. The only reason to be a bear until recently is if you believed QE wouldn’t come back until AFTER deflation.

irishtimesvideo: ► VIDEO: "Tesco ad 2.0", quoting Voltaire in French, referencing Will Smith's Oscars slap and heckling in between... today's Dáil's debate was described as "a disgrace" by the Ceann Comhairle

joeepopp: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ― Voltaire

voltaire_crypto: Bottom is in. Nothing makes sense besides bail outs and a debt doom loop. The US government has essentially become Do Kwon and the dollar is Luna.

voltaire_crypto: Looks about right. I wonder what pulled us apart and destroyed our values? Oh yeah, the decimation of our living standards and a destroyed American Dream from currency debasement.

EyePatchWolf: Public service announcement: I will not be providing Riverdale Updates for this final season. Like Goku gathering energy for the spirit bomb, I must save my strength.

LifeCoachMary: The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. --Voltaire

GSWSyndicate: Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.Voltaire

OUbowers: It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~ Voltaire

cardano_bits: $ADA: Cardano Prepares for Full Decentralization as it Plans to Enter the Voltaire Era

bodrum3535: Children of Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau .. France is always hot

SweatersWomens: Zadig & Voltaire Women Gray Wool Pullover Sweater XS

RealJoshLogan: “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do” ~Voltaire

no_fake_news_: I like Voltaire’s comment.

cgcromer08: “History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.” –Voltaire

MarlonEttinger: Boulevard Voltaire now.

CurlyRunnerEric: Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire

cardano_bits: Cardano Prepares for Full Decentralization as it Plans to Enter the Voltaire Era · Cardano Feed

MarlonEttinger: Chants of "Rise up Paris," and heavy flames on Boulevard Voltaire.

Voltaire_bt: good night

sues86453: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire

ScottSnyder_CMG: ‘Optimism!’ said Cacambo, ‘what is that?’ ‘Alas!’ replied Candide, ‘it is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst’ Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759)

PChevrin: BD Voltaire

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HBSMoLangs: 'Paris n'est pas en feu!' as my French colleagues say. Apart from Eiffel Tower closed today, main areas no different to any other trip: buses and métro fine. Demos isolated to N/NE: Voltaire, République, Bastille, Nation. What you may see on the news is therefore isolated.

PChevrin: BD Voltaire

treniaportiss: Lord , protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. ~ Voltaire

JamesMichelleM2: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire

MikeHermenet: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~ Voltaire

wondrouswaffles: Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. - Voltaire

tristan79: "The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply of the poor" - voltaire. Ideologies like capitalism and communism don't exist in nature, so they arent useful tools of thought, especially since definitions are so amorphous.

MartaDarley: Voltaire — 'It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.'

WhaleChart: Cardano prepares for more decentralization as it moves to Voltaire era

SpectatorOz: The Victorian Liberals are mad to hound one of their own out of the party for her activism in protecting women's spaces. What happened to freedom of thought? What happened to standing for women's issues?

englishspecial: Reminiscing that my first essay as an English major was to write an essay comparing Voltaire's Candide with Harris' Silence of the Lambs and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Coming from the stale A level of English it made me a fan of HE for life. What was your first essay at Uni?

CoinsPress: Cardano’s Voltaire Era: Empowering the Community for Decentralized Governance

waweru: “Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said “- Voltaire

ChronohaulBot: Don't touch me, oh I couldn't bear the thought of it, now Don't touch me, oh I couldn't bear the strain - Almost Human | Aurelio Voltaire

stevenvoiceover: If The Original Top Gun Had Been Made Today...

BSDLyricBot: I'm trying to earn a set of feathery wings I wish I could protect you here Oh please don't cry now, smile - Feathery Wings | Aurelio Voltaire (Atsushi Nakajima)

CoachGator1: Offensive MVP C/O 2025 Devin Voltaire WR

jasonappleton: LIVE: Cardano Going Full Decentralized - Voltaire Era

PhilosophyOI: "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." Voltaire

jasonappleton: LIVE: Cardano Going Full Decentralized - Voltaire Era

THEABHAYGAUTAM: "The best is the enemy of good." - Voltaire

chumbletwo: decided to look into random clone high characters this is voltaire

IncarcerNation: AL's governor has hijacked another budget. Money from education to fund a water park? Inside of the water park project, she hid more prison-building, the real recipient of this windfall. Gov. Ivey took $400 mln COVID $ to build more prisons.

IncarcerNation: Alabama's governor Ivey is the worst among governors shilling for the private prison industry. She has put the most money into new prisons and seems to want to make prisons the main economy in AL. Prisoners are taken for a fee from other states.

TonyClimate: “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” ― Voltaire

PeImeniPusha: Seymour Hersh made a new statement about the sabotage of Nord Stream. The Pulitzer Prize winner said that the United States blew up the pipelines because they were unhappy with the lack of support for Ukraine from Germany. Hersh first accused Washington of destroying a key…

BenjaminNorton: Mexico's Supreme Court blocked President AMLO's electoral reform (which has 74-93% support) AMLO says they're a "mafia" of "conservatives who do not want democracy, supporters of oligarchy" He notes they get paid more than the president of the country, and "money is their God"

cburniske: 11/ I do agree with Voltaire, that "fiat currency always eventually returns to its intrinsic value--zero," but that progression takes time, the USD is still in demand, and the velocity of USD is not high.

Akhareghemenbe2: Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. - Voltaire, 1694-1715.

rodrigovees: "History never repeats itself, man always does" Voltaire

WMD25178127: If I go to twitmo soon, I am not ignoring you. I've been telling the truth again. Bad habit that. " It's dangerous to be right, in matters about which the established authorities are wrong" Voltaire

DuncanAbigaba: Visited Winter Palace, the seat of the Russian Tsars (Emperors), now the Hermitage Museum. Learnt that there were black (Ethiopian) servants at the court starting in the 17th century. Saluted sculpture of the great French philosopher-Voltaire & saw the throne of the Tsar too.

TonyClimate: "Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them." - Voltaire

Justice78602373: What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire Sushant Butterfly Effect

esotericbot: "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero." ~ Voltaire

Voltaire_ke: Bill Burr is fireworks

CRYPT0411: $ADA: Cardano Prepares for Full Decentralization as it Plans to Enter the Voltaire Era: Cardano is laying the groundwork for full decentralization as it plans to enter the Voltaire era later this year. The Voltaire era aims to develop a…

KimDotcom: Nelson Mandela about the United States of America. Nothing has changed. The US Govt has killed over 20 million people in 37 victim nations after WW2.

zerohedge: Panic In Philly As Chemical Spill Sends Residents Scrambling For Bottled Water

invisiblepeople: Where Do They Go? The Painful Reality of Seattle's RV Homeless Sweeps

_fuluv_: got bored so i uploaded the entirety of Aurelio Voltaire's gothic sci-fi web series "Chi-Chian" on youtube for everyone to watch (info in thread!)

TonyClimate: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize," - Voltaire.

OverageGmngCom: OG plays Voltaire:The Vegan Vampire!

anniierau: i just found out that tumblr went to town on this venn diagram i made

ChronohaulBot: Don't touch me, oh I couldn't bear the thought of it, now Don't touch me, oh I couldn't bear the strain - Almost Human | Aurelio Voltaire

AmandaJCarrod: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Is it possible that Voltaire did too experience the - paid on commission - boutique worker who thought a high-necked, calf length lime green & fuschia smock was absolutely for him? ;)

mary_leng: I've been confused and upset by the vitriolic response to J. K. Rowling's tweets about the reality and political importance of the state of being female. Here's my attempt to explain what's going on: Harry Potter and the Reverse Voltaire

AshfaqmunirISF: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." – Voltaire

mary_leng: Still we wrote careful pieces about how we recognised that some of the things we were saying were difficult to hear and how we wouldn’t say them if we weren’t genuinely worried about the issues we were raising.

badbotideas: you should make a bot that writes songs like a cross between Voltaire and Avril Lavigne

steve_voltaire: Kettle chips are my fav post fasting meal

ShahrarAli: Brilliant enumeration of ways women have been silenced, gaslit, abused or persistently ignored on left, from Mary Leng, & expositor of how free speech subverted by Reverse Voltaire: “I agree completely with what you say, but I’ll fight to the death to prevent you from saying it.”

Abdzidane1: "Perfect is the enemy of good." Voltaire

steve_hanke: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." – Voltaire

InfiDale3476: “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.” - Voltaire

SergeyNazarov: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” ~ Voltaire The ability to prove a verifiable/incontrovertible truth, using technological means/decentralized consensus/cryptographic truth, is one of the few things I see limiting belief in absurdities.



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