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Similarly for Voltaire (not funny), Thomas Fuller (The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir--clever but not funny), and Bertrand Russell (There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge--wise but not funny), and Sigmund Freud (Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar--a straight line funny only to us).
To see Pol Pot today is to be reminded of Voltaire: "We must cultivate our ..."
"I think it's Voltaire who said, 'There's nothing more powerful than an idea that has come of age.
In a foreword to Duke's latest book, a 700-page autobiography judged by hate group watchers to be the most naked statement yet of the former KKK grand wizard's racist views, Whitney calls Duke a "seeker of truth," comparing him to Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire and declaring his vision of racially segregated societies to be based on "good science."
Diderot’s Encyclopédie championed reason over traditional religion, Rousseau discoursed on the origins of inequality, Voltaire shot at everything that didn’t move.