Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women."
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Sentiments
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James Monroe
Politician
"The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable."
Barack Obama
Politician
"How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?"
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself."
Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment."
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"It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."
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"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."
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"In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments."
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"The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist."
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"I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me."
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"Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments."
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"Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?"
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"It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried."
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"Any democratic sentiment propels my politics."
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"Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling."
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"All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment."
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"One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments."
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"Sometimes sentiments were better left in song."
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"The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship."
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"Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob."
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"Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality."
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"The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought."
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"That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong.""
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"No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments."
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"The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . ."
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