A Quote by Michel Houellebecq
When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.
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Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.
Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!
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I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.
The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.
We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.
There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.
Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.
In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.
If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?
Now make no mistake, I think we need a strong dose of fiscal conservatism in Washington, D.C.
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