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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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Victor Hugo Quotes to Explore

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas....
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do....
A war between Europeans is a civil war....
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime....
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human....
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters....
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man....
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it....
To love another person is to see the face of God....
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide....

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One does not leave a convivial party before closing time....
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality....
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be....
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one ...
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there....
We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis....
I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a gam...
I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking', but I don't have that much time....
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work....
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got....