To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEAwaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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